Last month (September) Andrew, James (our pastor) and Amber (children) started praying for the believers of our church. Andrew sent it to me and I did it along side of him. This month (October) our Pastor "challenged" the congregation to do it, so I am going through it again. This time though with a little more passion. See when I did it last month my prayer was, "Lord bless those, and watch over those, and help those of Kirkwood grow in you." That's as far as it went though. This time I went through and wrote down every person's name and I pray for them each individually. It has been more meaningful this time. I don't feel like i'm just flying through prayers to just get through them, but I'm actually taking the time to pray for each person.
These past few weeks I have been reminded how important prayer is. Not that I didn't believe it was important, I did however get caught up in the, praying to pray, because it was my Christian duty. When I started praying specifically for each person, by name, it all changed. Part of the scripture that we are reading is coming out of Colossians 1 vs. 9 tells us, "we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way:bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11. being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully, 12. giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light." We are called to pray, we are called to pray for others. If you would like to join in on praying for other believers, click here.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray continually
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