A week of prayer

I'm asking everyone who pauses here to join me in a week devoted to prayer. We have talked about praying for others; we've talked about praying for our leaders and our countries. 

It's time to put boots on the ground, er, knees on the floor. Or if we can't do that, it's time to sit quietly in a comfortable, silent spot where we can talk to our Father God and listen for His answers. Where we can pray and then look in our Bibles to see what the Spirit has for us, to guide us in these turbulent times.

Abraham interceded for the people of Sodom for the sake of his nephew, Lot. He asked God to spare the city and his family if certain (small) numbers of righteous people, amongst the thousands that lived in the wicked city. He kept reducing the number...even though God could not find ten righteous in the city, He honored Abraham's intent by sparing Lot and his family.

Moses pleaded for God's mercy for the sinning people of the nation. Daniel begged God to hear and forgive his people. We have multiple examples in the New Testament of the apostles and others who prayed faithfully and saw God work in mighty ways.

We must be prayer warriors, too. I humbly ask for you to join me each day this week as we pray. I also ask that you bear me up in prayer as I begin a new study for us; I pray that I will post according to the leading of the Spirit, and that someone will receive a word that helps them along their way.

Let's pray.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. (I John 5:14-15)