May 5 is National Day of Prayer.
Our community is hosting a time of prayer from 6:30 to 7:30 in the city park. Many people of various faiths will be praying for many things. On April 8, I posted a blog explaining that I won’t be praying that God make this a Christian nation. Instead, I will be praying that followers of Jesus Christ:
- Turn their heads away from deceptive philosophy and deceit (Colossians 2:8)
- Encourage one another and build one another up (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
- Train for godliness (1 Timothy 4:7-10)
- Set an example in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity (1 Thessalonians 4:12)
- Build our houses on the Rock (Matthew 7:24-27)
- Bring little children to Jesus (Mark 10:14)
- Love the Lord our God and our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31)
If we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ ask Him to help us live in ways that bring Him the glory, this country will be a better place. A safer place. Institutions of marriage and family, health, law, education, church, and government will be influenced for “the people’s good.”
Generations will know the mercies of God.
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You know, this may sound cynical of me, but why can’t we all just go to our own churches to pray? Why not have each pastor in the town open up his church for a prayer service (oh wait, I already do that twice a week) for their own members? Why must there always be a push to get as many people in one place at one time as possible? As if God will hear us better because we are all in a big group together. Stuff like that just drives me buggy.
I certainly won’t discourage my members from attending these events, but I’ll be in my church, where I have been called by Christ, praying, in case anyone wants to join me.