Who do you pray for?
As the old year passes and the new year comes we often thing more about prayers and praying. When you pray do you only pray for
your own needs or do you intercede for those you know or who live in your
life? We are to be like Jesus and In
doing so we really ought to be praying for everyone who believes that they have
their needs met, and also those who do not know Him yet that they may know the
Truth and the Truth shall set them free.
Sounds like a lot doesn’t it. I
mean you could be praying for hours if you listed and named everyone on your
list who needs a prayer answered.
I have a friend who recently lost a
parent and is trying hard to deal with the loss plus help the surviving parent
to survive as well. Though she is strong she is not strong enough to do it all
without Christ helping with divine appointments. So, I lift her up as often as
I think of her, which this week is really often! There may be others I pray for but at the
same time its all about who God brings to remembrance or the needs put before
you.
The main thing is to pray to
sanctify yourself so that your motives are pure in prayer and you do not pray
amiss. James 4:2-3 says; Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask
amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Be careful what you pray for! That
is what I have heard in regards to some prayers for patience, but then
sometimes that is really what you need!
As you will find below in John, Jesus prayed for us! Even before we believed! That alone gives me the reason to pray for others aside from myself.
If you instruct the brethren in
these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the
words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. But
reject profane and old wives’ fables and exercise yourself toward godliness.1
Timothy 4:4-6
They do not belong to this world
any more than I do. 17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word,
which is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into
the world. John 17:16-18
“I do not pray for these alone, but
also for those who [j]will believe in Me through their word; that they all may
be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in
Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave
Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and
You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know
that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave
Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have
given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous
Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known
that You sent Me. And I have declared to
them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may
be in them, and I in them.” John 17:20-26
Pray.
In His love, Teresa Wilson