I listened to a sermon a few weeks ago and the title was called ‘Choosing Revival in America’- Mario Murillo, he was a guest speaker at Bethel church, in Redding California. It was a great sermon and made me very hopeful for America, and I wanted to share with you what I thought! I hope this inspires you or at least makes you think a bit about this topic.
Prayer. It is very powerful. What do you pray for? Do you believe in your prayers? Do you believe that they will actually happen? If not, then why are you praying?
I have seen children pray, and they pray the most amazing prayers! Because they are pure in heart, and they have faith like God has called us to have. When I was attending The House Church in Burnsville, MN, family is a huge part of that church, and I loved it. They put a lot of effort and support into the children’s ministries. Why? Because they are our future and we need to teach them how God has called us to live! These kids would pray for each other, the church, or anything and they just had such faith, trust and belief in God and in what they were praying for because God has said ‘Ask and it shall be given to you’ and they trust that. So, why don’t we, as adults? I know there are so many things that hinder our thinking, that make us doubt but, trusting God should be this easy, it is as easy as kids do.
Mario Murillo talked about praying for our country, for me America (or whatever country you are from). Is it important? What do you think? Do we actually take time to pray for our country? Why not?
The day the case verdict declared that praying in school was against the law was a very sad day. Prior to this all the children across America were praying for our country, our leaders, teachers, families, etc. EVERYDAY with hearts so pure and faithful, trusting that God would fulfill their prayer. Wow, think about how many voices were declaring strength, courage, patience, wisdom, etc. over our leaders, families, teachers!!!! Awesome!
But when the government decided no more prayer in school. All of those prayers were no longer lifted up daily (at least not as many voices). I would have loved to do a survey to see how many families still had their children pray that prayer every morning...what do you think the percentage was? My guess is that is was little to none. So think about this if we don’t ask God for something will He just make it right? If we don’t pray for our country, our media, our families, our marriages, our friendships, our teachers, our leaders, will God just make it all ok? My opinion, no. He is a God of grace and second chances, Praise the Lord, but if we don’t ask for something, we aren’t acknowledging the problem and I think God needs us to realize that and go to Him for the answer.
With all this said, Do you Believe in what you are praying for? Do you Trust that God will fulfill your prayer? If not, then I would strongly suggest you rethink your thoughts about prayer and why you do pray. I believe that we need to have trust, and belief behind what we are asking of God, thanking of God, praising to God.
Prayer. It is very powerful. What do you pray for? Do you believe in your prayers? Do you believe that they will actually happen? If not, then why are you praying?
I have seen children pray, and they pray the most amazing prayers! Because they are pure in heart, and they have faith like God has called us to have. When I was attending The House Church in Burnsville, MN, family is a huge part of that church, and I loved it. They put a lot of effort and support into the children’s ministries. Why? Because they are our future and we need to teach them how God has called us to live! These kids would pray for each other, the church, or anything and they just had such faith, trust and belief in God and in what they were praying for because God has said ‘Ask and it shall be given to you’ and they trust that. So, why don’t we, as adults? I know there are so many things that hinder our thinking, that make us doubt but, trusting God should be this easy, it is as easy as kids do.
Mario Murillo talked about praying for our country, for me America (or whatever country you are from). Is it important? What do you think? Do we actually take time to pray for our country? Why not?
The day the case verdict declared that praying in school was against the law was a very sad day. Prior to this all the children across America were praying for our country, our leaders, teachers, families, etc. EVERYDAY with hearts so pure and faithful, trusting that God would fulfill their prayer. Wow, think about how many voices were declaring strength, courage, patience, wisdom, etc. over our leaders, families, teachers!!!! Awesome!
But when the government decided no more prayer in school. All of those prayers were no longer lifted up daily (at least not as many voices). I would have loved to do a survey to see how many families still had their children pray that prayer every morning...what do you think the percentage was? My guess is that is was little to none. So think about this if we don’t ask God for something will He just make it right? If we don’t pray for our country, our media, our families, our marriages, our friendships, our teachers, our leaders, will God just make it all ok? My opinion, no. He is a God of grace and second chances, Praise the Lord, but if we don’t ask for something, we aren’t acknowledging the problem and I think God needs us to realize that and go to Him for the answer.
With all this said, Do you Believe in what you are praying for? Do you Trust that God will fulfill your prayer? If not, then I would strongly suggest you rethink your thoughts about prayer and why you do pray. I believe that we need to have trust, and belief behind what we are asking of God, thanking of God, praising to God.
And no prayer goes unheard.
I would say that a lot of us, Americans, would say our country is in the hurt bag, going down hill, whatever "fun" phrase you’d like to put in there. I have said this as well, but my mind has changed and I am seeing the need to pray for these issues we face! Really pray specifically for the financial state of our country, for the specific decisions our leaders are making, specific details of what our education system needs to change or ideas for how to improve our children’s education. If we take a look at where we’ve come from and where we are as a country, we have come ALONG way, wow! But there is still a ways to go in improving our economy, families, marriages, education, budgeting, our faith, etc. Let us have HOPE IN OUR COUNTRY. Trusting that our prayers will be heard and that God will move in the areas that we pray for!
I would say that a lot of us, Americans, would say our country is in the hurt bag, going down hill, whatever "fun" phrase you’d like to put in there. I have said this as well, but my mind has changed and I am seeing the need to pray for these issues we face! Really pray specifically for the financial state of our country, for the specific decisions our leaders are making, specific details of what our education system needs to change or ideas for how to improve our children’s education. If we take a look at where we’ve come from and where we are as a country, we have come ALONG way, wow! But there is still a ways to go in improving our economy, families, marriages, education, budgeting, our faith, etc. Let us have HOPE IN OUR COUNTRY. Trusting that our prayers will be heard and that God will move in the areas that we pray for!
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