Yesterday morning, as is my custom, I read from the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest by the incomparable Oswald Chambers. The text for the day is Luke 11:1, which reads, “Lord, teach us to pray.” He says this about prayer, “We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”
But his closing paragraph stuck with me all day.
“It is not so true that ‘prayer changes things’ as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man’s disposition.”
Tonight, some of us are joining together to pray for healing for the little baby of some very dear friends of ours. I am looking forward to what our Lord will do, not just in the body of this infant, but in our hearts as we join in intercession to our Redeemer, the Great Physician.
Thank you Lord for allowing us to intercede for others. I too, pray for this little child and the parents. Thank you Father for being there, for caring, for listening and for answering. As we pray help us to listen, to be led by your Spirit, to be subject to your sovereign will. Holy Spirit teach us what to pray that we might pray what would be pleasing to our Father. We pray the Father’s will and that it might be known. We ask for your grace and mercy in this situation. For your son’s glory, amen
Amen, lodebar.
We had an awesome time of intercession last night. Thank you for joining with us in your prayers.
Shalom