Maybe we haven’t prayed this prayer, but we ought to consider it. Francis Chan turns up the heat in this two-minute devotional thought. Watch the clip, and then carefully consider the validity of those objections that rise in your heart.
(HT: Josh Harris)
It was a joy last night to hear the earnest prayers of the Concord family lifted for the sake of the village of Alis, Peru. If you missed the video last night from our first gathering of believers in Alis, or if you’d like to see it again, skip over to the YQ blog. The 4 minute video is new and improved with subtitles. Fancy!
We’re praying for our team today and their relationships with area workers. Also, they will get their opportunity to meet the town’s beloved Peace Corps worker this week. Continue praying for God to give Nick, Colby, Kelly, and Melva wisdom, grace and favor.
Have you seen the powerful media clip excerpted from one of John Piper’s recent sermons? I deeply appreciate the respect shown for our President while at the same time offering earnest opposition to a grievous social evil promoted by our President.
Father, thank you for pastors who have thought so carefully and spoken so clearly about the pressing moral issues of our day. Please strengthen John Piper as he sticks out his neck for the truth. Forgive us, your church, for fearing controversy more than we fear you. Deliver us from the prevailing, wimpy view of love that sees love as permissiveness rather than truthfulness. Open the eyes of our President and our nation to see the wickedness of abortion. Help us to value rightly all life made in your image, whether that life be a tiny embryo or a powerful politician with whom we disagree. To you be the glory through Christ Jesus, Amen.
My good friend David Michael emailed me a prayer after he listened to last Sunday’s sermon on the church at Thyatira (Rev 2:18-29). I was blown away by the love, intensity, and vision of the prayer and was eager for more “amens” than my own to rise to the Lord after reading it. Will you make this your prayer as well? (more…)
By this time tomorrow the United States of America will have voted on a new President-elect as well as a new Congress. Many people will be celebrating. Equally as many will be mourning because their man didn’t win. Al Mohler offers some helpful advice on how to pray for our leaders regardless of who is elected to office on November 5.
1. We should pray that God will bless America with leaders better than we deserve. Democratic systems inevitably reflect the electorate’s decisions, and these decisions reveal underlying worldviews. And, truth be told, all we can expect from democracy is the government we deserve. We must pray for a government and for leaders better than we deserve. May God grant us mercy as he reigns and rules over all things, including this election.
2. We should pray that Americans will be motivated to fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship, yet also that we will be stripped of an unhealthy and idolatrous confidence in the power of government to save us. God has given us the gift of rulers and governments in order to restrain evil, uphold righteousness, and provide for civil order. No human ruler can save. No government official or office holder can heal the human heart, solve the sin problem, or accomplish final justice. These powers belong to God and God alone. (more…)
