Verses: James 5 : 13 - 20
My thoughts about the
verses:
Think back over the last
month. How many times have you prayed
for a situation that is occurring in your own life? How many times have you prayed for someone in
your family? How many times have you
prayed for a friend? How many times have
you prayed for a stranger?
Would guess for many of
us we cannot keep count on how many times we have prayed for ourselves. It is easy to ask God to help us in our times
of need. When we struggle personally we call
for help. We realize that we need God to
help us. We ask God to help us in both
small and big things. When we are sick
we ask God to heal us. When we are hungry
we ask God to be there to help us.
We also have an easy
time asking God to be there for our friends and family. Not only do we want to be fulfilled because
of their need, but we want it for ourselves also. Knowing that they are well brings us
relief. We aren’t necessarily being
selfish, but their well-being benefits us also.
Now think how it would feel if we did not know that God would hear us
when we prayed for our family. Wouldn’t there
be a sense of brokenness in our lives.
What is harder is
praying for those that we do not know.
People we see on the street that need God are healing hands. People we run into once in our life that need
God’s comforting arms to surround them.
These are the people that we also need to pray for.
I worked in a hospital
setting for ten years. It was not unusual
to hear codes throughout the day. Working in an office setting you don’t know
the people that need to be prayed for.
Yet, I felt like I was helping by asking God to be with the patient, the
family and those that were responding to the code. I felt like it was the least I could do to
offer that moment of prayer. I never
knew the outcome of the situation. Yet that
wasn’t important. What was important is
that I took the time to pray for someone that really needed God’s gentle touch.
We have all be in
situations where we can offer prayer up for someone that we don’t know. How many of us are on Facebook or other
social networks. Think about the people
that we could truly bless, if each and every time we saw someone post a prayer request,
we stopped and prayed. We could change
the world one prayer at a time. It isn’t
hard to give someone comfort in their time of need. Simply telling them that you prayed for them
can give them a since of hope. Many of
these people are not our close friends.
They are someone we knew in school or at a job. Maybe we are praying for someone that they
know that we don’t. God hears our
prayers and will be there helping them with their true needs.
See we need to make sure
that each and every day we pray for our brothers and sisters. We need to pray for this world. We need to pray for those that are lost and
without Jesus in their life. We need to
show humbleness by not only praying for ourselves but for others. As your prayer life grows you will soon to
come to realize that it is easier and easier to pray. The people around you will see you become
more and more spiritual.
When you are in prayer
you are open up dialogue between you and God.
You have to remember also that we need to take a moment in our prayers
to thank God for what has happened. We
need to praise God for our salvation. We
also need to stop and allow God to hear us.
It is in these moments that we will find what God has truly laid on our
hearts. Prayer can change your life and others
if you only take the time to pray.
Prayer:
We praise you God. We worship your holy name. We thank you for all you have done in our
lives. We praise you for the many
blessings that you bestow on our lives daily.
Help us come to you in prayer.
Help us to pray for our brothers and sisters. Help us as we pray for the lost. In the name of the Source of Peace we
pray. Amen
Questions:
Are
you praying for your needs? Are you
praying for the needs of others? Are you
thanking God for the blessings that you have received? Are you listening to what God needs you to
hear?
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