Today I am compelled. Today I will pray. I will pray for that special place that holds my heart, tangles my guts, and renders me helpless with excitement. I pray for them many times, but today it's like a blaring horn in my head beckoning me to focus very specifically in prayer for that nation.
Naming people by name
Speaking out the names of cities and villages
Being vocal about various needs of specific individuals
I will go about the Lord's business in prayer about this nation, their people, my friends, the work, my life there. I have one of those moments when you know what the Spirit is calling you to do, and it is obvious what needs to be done. So today I will pray blessing and revelation, dreams, and words of compassion and conviction over this place.
What if we all sat down as believers all at once and prayed over the areas in the world that call out to us with hunger and thirst of the salvation of Jesus. If we all sat down with the Holy Spirit prompting our words, stirring our passions for these areas in the world. I wonder what a significant impact that would be for the people of the world and even ourselves.
Because God listens, and even though I am not present among the people I wish to serve, my God is ever-present working on the hearts and minds of those who will love him. So today I will pray that his efforts will take root in those hearts and more readily accept him as Lord and Savior filled with salvation and blessing. I will even pray that he make ready more hearts in this nation. I believe he can, and I believe he will.
So if there is a place in the world that is tender in your heart, if there is a place you feel convicted for, maybe you should join me today. Even if it is only for a few minutes, join me in forgetting our sphere of influence and remembering God's sphere of influence where through prayer we are able to be.
Many grand gestures of God have been shown because of prayer and faith of individuals. Because God listens, we should have faith that he will do what the righteous desires of our hearts ask for.
All to God
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