Many of our friends and family are facing difficult issues. They may be facing operations or other medical procedures, going through treatment for a recent accident or illness, tested positive for Covid, or been exposed to someone with the virus. Some have elderly parents they are caring for, or children who are facing difficulties. Our prayer list at church is quite long and we add to the list prayer for neighboring churches, people in the military or working as first responders. Prayer is a major part of our Christian walk.
Today at our local Pastors' Association meeting the devotional spoke to prayer and the feeling that we may not be praying fervently enough because we are not seeing our prayers answered now as they seemed to be in Biblical times. Jesus withdrew from the crowds to pray and now we tend to hear about people wanting prayer and say "I'll pray for you" and we withdraw from the request and often don't present the need to God.
I plead guilty. I do pray, but not as much as I could or should, and yet I know that God hears our prayers, blesses us when we put Him first, has been faithful to Karen and me beyond our wildest dreams, and wants to be actively involved in our lives. Our country is floundering in so many ways and I do feel that God will intervene when we who call ourselves Christians heed the words of 2Chronicles7:14..............It's starting to get serious and we of His Church need to get serious about His Promise and how we see it fulfilled. PRAY.......PRAY.......PRAY.
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