DAY 37

Meghan Baird | Re:Hope West End

I was saved because my friends prayed for me. Before I came to faith, I was lost. Life hadn’t been easy. I carried a lot of pain and sought healing and freedom in all the wrong places. I’d never given faith much thought, but I was certain that — if there was a God — He wasn’t anywhere near my story. 

I’m fortunate enough to have two very good friends that I met through work. They saw my struggles and knew the life, restoration and healing that Jesus could bring. Without me knowing, they prayed and fasted for me to come to faith. This went on for years. 

In April 2025, one of these friends invited me to Alpha. I was at a particularly low point and I knew that I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. So, I decided to go along. 

From the very first session, I realised just how little I actually knew – about faith, about Jesus, about what real, actual, life-changing love looks like. I went on a journey with it. I finished Alpha, attended services, made new friends. More people began praying for me. By November, the final piece clicked and I was ready to give my life to Jesus.

I was baptised in March, surrounded by my new church family, and with those same two friends cheering me on from the front row. 

And now? I am walking in the answered prayers of my friends. Jesus is healing me, redeeming me and showing me the life he has planned for me. In the new year, I’m heading off to YWAM for a Discipleship Training School to get to know God more and help other people to know Him too. It’s wild to look back and see just how much my life has been transformed in a little over a year. 

As I’m writing this, all I can think of is that line from a Lauren Daigle song: “I will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night.” God does so much of his work through His people. My friends were His army, and He used them to rescue me. 

Pray for your friends, guys. It might just save their lives.