Got this from email. 
A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of
the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The
two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agree that they had no
other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose
prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory
between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.
The first thing the first man prayed for was food. The next
morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the
land, and he was able to eat its fruit. The other man's parcel of
land remained barren.
After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a
wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor
was a woman who swam to his side of the land. On the other side of
the island, there was nothing.
Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. The next
day, like magic, all of these were given to him. However, the
second man still had nothing.
Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that his wife and he
could leave the island. In the morning, he found a ship docked at
his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his
wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. He
considered the other man unworthy to receive God's blessings, since
none of his prayers had been answered.
As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from
Heaven booming,
"Why are you leaving your companion on the island?"
"My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for
them," the first man answered.
"His prayers were all unanswered, and so he does not deserve
anything."
"You are mistaken!" the voice rebuked him. "He had only one prayer,
which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any
of my blessings."
"Tell me," the first man asked the voice, "what did he pray for
that I should owe him anything?"
"He prayed that all your prayers be answered."
For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers
alone, but those of another praying for us.
When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you!
