Prayer requests

There is great power in prayer. 

With prayer, no problem is too big, nor is any problem too small. There are times when we do not ask God for too much -- we ask Him for too little. We make the same mistake that many people make: even though we believe in Him, we do not intimately include Him in our lives.

You might be as old as me, but I'll keep your secret. (Grin) Do you remember your long ago days of school like I do? Remember how each day began? Usually things got started with announcements over a loudspeaker and the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer. It was the same all over this great country; classrooms full of children bowing their heads in a prayer.  Seems like eons ago . . . 

Recently a survey was taken on some college campuses -- about half of the students who responded thought the motto of our nation, "In God We Trust," should be removed from our money. That is what happened in those eons we just mentioned. The eons between 1962 and now.

In 1962, the highest court of our land declared that school-sponsored prayer was unacceptable. But then, the court's decision reached farther still. We used to have prayer before ballgames and prayers at civic gatherings. We used to have prayer before final exams. All of this said something about the importance of prayer in our lives. And the impact of the court decision has been long-term, and very significant -- prayer has been eradicated from schools, from civic places, and from our hearts as a start to our daily activities.

I think that now there is a void in so many people's lives. The loss is so gradual that we may not realize it's taking place. But then, we come to times in our lives and we don't know where to turn to get help. At least, if we don't know Christ, we don't know. What do you do when you have no experience with prayer and no God is mentioned to you, so that you'd know to whom to pray?

This is the world that we have provided for those college students. For all of our children and our grandchildren. We have been silent for far too long. They have grown up detached and not knowing how to trust Him. They're living in a spiritual wasteland. We've created a world that shapes itself around social activities and the pursuit of pleasure; one that leaves out God, reduces morals and respect for others, and becomes increasingly lawless and godless.

Wow. What do we do now?

We can touch our children, our grandchildren, and the children in our communities and point them to God. Whether it's the prayers we offer in public or in private, whether it's in church or in some meeting place, or we bow our head in a restaurant, we need to pray. It's only then that God can hear from us. He can come and meet with us. He can use us to speak a word for Him. He can bring His presence not just in our lives but into the lives of those around us.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (II Chronicles 7:14) 

America needs spiritual healing. America needs cleansing. We believers need to pray. We need to rise from our knees and stand for Him, for our freedoms, and for each other.

Let's begin today.

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