Pray for our World, our Nation, His Church
Please consider with your heart this one brief exhortation: there is
nothing you
or I will do this week that is more important than heeding God’s call upon our lives
to meet with Him in prayer!
―Dr. David Walker, Alamo City Christian Fellowship
The saintly E. M. Bounds put it this way:
“We do fear that we are doing more of other things
than prayer.
This is not a praying age; it is an age of great activity,
of great movements, but one in which the tendency is very strong to stress the seen
and the material and to neglect and to
discount the unseen and the spiritual.
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into
active aid.
There can be no substitute, no rival for prayer;
it stands alone as the great spiritual force… It must be continuous
and particular, always, everywhere, and in everything.”
Agreement in prayer in the Name of Jesus is more profitable for the expansion of
the
Kingdom
and the protection of our state, nation, and
freedom than any activity we can do.
Prayer for souls, believing prayer for financial provisions, and prayer for everything
is what
God has
graciously and abundantly blessed.
For our World…
Let us pray for
Jehovah Sabbaoth’s mighty hand of restraint to be seen in the Middle East,
working His
purposes out in the complex movement of men and nations there.
We are told to
pray for the peace of
Jerusalem
– for in its peace seems historically to be seen
the world’s
peace, at least in general terms.
(Psalm 122:6)
Also, may we remember
in the Savior’s name our troops in
Iraq
and other areas of the world.
May we pray for the protection and the ministry of the Holy
Spirit to those on assignment there.
For our Nation…
May we hold faithfully
in prayer our President, Vice President, his
Cabinet, the Supreme Court and the Congress.
It is a gloriously
thrilling hope to claim II Corinthians 10:3-5 for these needy men and women.
The passage culminates, as you know, with the phrase “taking every thought
captive to
the obedience of Christ.”
We can and must
pray that those words of God literally would be done in our
Nation’s
capitol.
There are none
of those so hidden or so protected by their lofty position, that the Spirit of God
cannot invade, capture, and conquer their thoughts and plans!
May we pray your
protection over your chosen servants as you gave to Daniel
(Daniel 6:1-25),
so that we, too, may all hear the proclamation that Darius decreed in his kingdom.
(Daniel 6:26-27)
For the Church…
Allow the passage
from Galatians 3:3 to wash across your heart: “Having begun by the Spirit,
are you now being perfected by the flesh?”
Could it be that in the midst of so many
blessings,
a leaning away from total dependence on the Spirit for our every step could have
developed, and a leaning toward the arm of the flesh or doing things just because
they make sense or might “work” could have crept in?
Will you pray that
the Lord Jesus, the Head of the church, will clearly resist our nation’s every activity
that has not come from His leading, and that He will confirm again and again that
which has come from Him by blessing it with life and fruit?
Pray that we will
not be offended by what He shows us.
Praying for you and standing
with you,
Michigan
Prayer Network ♦ United in Prayer
Adapted from Watchman on the Walls, Dr. David Walker, Alamo City Christian Fellowship, Antonio, Texas. Used with permission.