How much time is required to pray to make a request to God for Him to answer?
What words are necessary to be said when desperation looms?
Is God more likely to be moved by the prayer of a single individual, or respond to the prayers of a multitude?
This is not the time to discuss the ‘what ifs’ of prayer.
Yesterday, I listened to a podcast on Voice of the Martyrs radio. The gentlemen that was being interviewed is very familiar with the nation of Afghanistan, and knowledgeable of the current conflict and the issues facing the Afghan nationals and the Christian community in that country.
Today at Church, our Pastor led the congregation in prayer for the situation in Afghanistan, and for the safety of our fellow believers in Christ.
The eyes of the world are focused on the nation of Afghanistan. The United States is front and center in the midst of the conflict. As I write these words, there are only two calendar days left before the end of the month, August 30 and August 31.
The end of the month is a deadline for the United States to remove our military personnel, our American citizens trapped in Afghanistan, and as many other people seeking to be removed from harms way by the United States or any other nation dedicated and determined to transport people to safety.
The gentlemen on the VOM podcast said that he believes millions of people are praying for the situation in Afghanistan.
How many people in the world, including the United States are watching with a certitude of hopelessness; a feeling of helplessness; or with a fear of anticipated tragedy.
I am certain that many believers in Christ have been searching the scripture for incidents of God’s miraculous intervention in the most desperate and impossible situations. I have thought about it.
Our responsibility as believers is to intercede and pray, asking God, our Father to be gracious and merciful to the nation of Afghanistan; to protect those in harms way; restrain the evil forces seeking to kill, steal, and destroy; to watch over and protect His people there in this nation; and to provide opportunity for the Gospel to be proclaimed in spite of this conflict.
Can God do the impossible? Absolutely
What will God do? I do not know; but we do know that God’s will, “…will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10, ESV)
God is Sovereign and He does what He pleases to do. I know that sounds harsh; but it is Reality. God is working out all things according to the purpose of His will to be be accomplished before the end of this age, and the return of His Son, Jesus Christ to the earth to set up His Kingdom.
We must remember that God’s ways are not our ways, nor are His thoughts our thoughts. We must set aside the grandiose idea that somehow we are superior to God, and that we are more informed than Him, and we are in more control than He is. How Absurd!
The time is short, the hour is almost at hand when the ‘clock strikes’ telling us that it is the ‘end of the month’.
I am asking that you join with the millions of other people who are praying and interceding before the throne of grace, asking God to help in time of need. Our world is at a crossroads. Prayer plays an important part in the destiny of an individual’s life as well as the destiny of a nation.
We must not sit back and wait out the next two days; we need to pray and petition God to intervene; we need to remember Who our God is? His Essence, and His Grace, Mercy, and Justice.
Our God reigns…
Let us boldly pray, asking our God for His mighty intervention and to astound the world with an intervention that the whole world will take notice of and declare, this is the Hand of God. He has made Himself known.
Blessings, deo
Living Words of Encouragement 