Why does a nation turn from the Lord? He who sits in the heavens laughs, and warns. We can defy and perish - or surrender and be blessed.
In our nation currently, we seem to be in Psalm 2, conspiring together and raging against the Lord and rushing headlong to authoritarianism.
Come, let us pray for the rulers and authorities across the land - that they would heed the warning, and willingly submit to the Lord’s Anointed, while they still are able.
Prayer Insights … from Alistair Begg 1
Last week we learned about praying bigger prayers, better prayers as Alistair used the letter from the apostle Paul to the Ephesian church to highlight four qualities which Paul prays for the them: Focus, Hope, Riches, Power.
This week we’ll add his fifth quality: Love
Eph 3:17-19 … that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Paul prayed the church would grow in their comprehension of the immeasurable love God has for us. “Paul wants them, and us, to experience the joy of knowing the unknowable — of knowing how loved we are.”
He wants us to know this corporately as a church; he wants us to think properly and know this love in our minds and not just as a feeling. And he wants to know this love is comprehensive, it is so vast it goes beyond what can be measured.
So, as we learn to pray bigger, let us pray for this love!
Pray For The People Of God From The Word Of God
Here are four passages we are praying from this week:
Thu - Pray for Love - to be rooted and grounded in love
Fri - Pray to comprehend with all the saints
Sat - Pray to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge
Sun - Pray to be filled with all the fullness of God
Will you join me in praying these verses, and ask one person to join you?
Until Monday, grace and peace
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Notes from Pray Big: Learn to Pray Like an Apostle, by Alistair Begg, 2019 Published by The Good Book Company in association with Truth For Life Ministries.
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