Dear Praying Friends,
It has been awhile since I have written anything here because life has been particularly challenging in these days. But even in the challenges, I feel compelled to pray on. Maybe even more so!
This post has been in my heart since early December and today I feel that I should try to articulate some things I feel God is saying to me. I don’t know if this will resonate with anyone else, but I feel that I have been to some deep and hard places with the Lord recently.
If you have followed the blog at all, you may know that over the past weeks, I have been asking the Lord about “weeping.” I have known for years that weeping is a form of prayer. Some call weeping, “liquid prayer” and I can resonate with that.
A few weeks back, I felt the Lord told me that I need to weep, but I found that with the condition of our world and with the challenges of personal life, I felt numb and couldn’t shed a tear. So I asked the Lord to help me. I recalled that when Jesus looked at Jerusalem, He wept.
Early in December, I found myself in downtown Denver, Colorado for a family event. I had an unsual encounter that night in the hustle and bustle of the big city. All of a sudden I saw a “sea” of faces and the people in the cars and high rises were no longer strangers to me. I felt the Lord say, “These are people that I died for.” I felt weeping begin to rise in my heart and I felt the Lord was weeping through me for His lost sheep. I whispered to the Lord, “Please bring a spiritual awakening to Denver, Colorado and to Laramie, Wyoming. If you need to weep for these places, You can weep through me.”
I guess my prayer prompt for you today is to ask the Lord to really help you “see” the people that you encounter in your day to day life as those that He died for. I believe that His Church must be “tenderized” towards the lost of our world.
Let’s keep on praying for Neighbor and Nation:
Show Us Your Glory, Lord. Help us to thrive in 2025 and help us to pray for the lost.
Weeping…part three…Luke 6:21
Prayer Pointer:
Prayer Starter: Lord, help Your Church, help me. We are numb with the hurt of this world and sometimes it is hard to care about anything anymore. Take out our heart of stone and put a heart in us that beats with Your heartbeat. Help us to see the “sea” of people around us everyday that You died for. (add your own prayers)Show Us Your Glory, Lord. Help us to thrive in 2025 and help us to pray for the lost.
Think/Journal/Apply: The joy of the Lord isn’t pretending everything is fine. It’s the deep strength of knowing God has not walked away. You don’t have to wait for a perfect day to know that joy. You have a faithful God who is your strength in this one. -Our Daily Verse (add your own thoughts/prayers)
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