July 2018

What should we talk to God
about? What would you talk to
your own mother or father about,
or your best friend. God is interested
in all that. What would you
not talk to them about? God is
absolutely interested in that too.
He loves every part of you with a
great passion, and prayer is the
way to His heart, to understand
His passion. There is absolutely
no point in hiding anything from
God because He already knows
it, but while it remains hidden it
gripes at you. If you talk to Him
about it, it can be put right.
You will always have issues to
talk to God. But Father’s instruction
is “Do unto others as
you would have them do for
you.” Immediately that suggests
we should pray for others because
we’d love them to pray for
us. It also suggests we have a
responsibility to pray for others,
because we can, and because
the Lord hears and responds.
Prayer for others also makes us
aware of the needs of others and
stops us centering constantly on
ourselves and our own wants.
Concern for others hopefully will
also bring us to do things for others
where we can, because faith
without action (works) is dead
(James 2:14 – 26 and Heb 11:7
– 19). It elevates our ability to
recognise need when we see
it and respond accordingly. It
sharpens our understanding of
others and turns our attention
out where it needs to be. People
whose attention is constantly
upon their own problems can get
mired in that and become suicidal
or very depressed. Christians
have not the time for that because
they are busy with caring
for others.
We all live in community and
want to live peaceably with our
families. Living in community
means that some people must
be set aside to maintain our lifestyles
and run governments.
We need the best people so
that brings with it a concern with
knowledge of community – both
local and national – about which
we need to pray also, lest they
misrepresent our needs or cease
to be ethical in their dealing. As
Caleb aged eighty at least, ‘took
his mountain” when the Hebrews
captured their first cities
in Israel, so we need to “capture
our mountains” in government,
education, arts, media, religion,
family and business.
Wisdom applies here and we
need to pray for that. We also
need to pray for national leaders
because they affect our lifestyle
and we need to support those
who move ethically and show
up those who do not. They also
affect our ability to do our work
of evangelisation for the Lord.
Managing a Nation requires wisdom,
so we need to pray for that
for our politicians.
So you don’t agree with what the
leaders of the nation (school,
council) are doing? The very
first thing to do is “Take it to the
Lord in prayer.” If he is wanting
more of you than that He will
lay it on your heart to get into
the field yourself with it. Which
ever way it is we need to pray
over our leadership and those in
authority so that we can live in
peace (1 Timothy 2:2). Prayer
changes things, and “Ïf my people,
who are called by My name,
will humble themselves and pray
and seek My face, and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will
hear form Heaven, and I will forgive
their sin, and I will heal their
bodies.
However, the Lord does not go
back on His original gift by taking
the reins back from satan This
would negate His original plan
of giving authority to mankind in
Adam. It was man’s decision to
give his authority to satan and
listen to him above God the Creator.
Our Father therefore will
only intervene if it is requested
by men during their prayers.
This leaves men in authority as
was the original plan back in the
Garden of Eden.
It also leaves man with the responsibility
for the earth and all
that happens here. But it doesn’t
leave him without resources for
this.
“He is invited to come to the Lord
with every need he has, to pray
land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
“The Lord gave all authority and
dominion to Adam, who gave it
away to Satan.”(Genesis 2).
However, the Lord does not go
back on His original gift by taking
the reins back from satan This
would negate His original plan
of giving authority to mankind in
Adam. It was man’s decision to
give his authority to satan and
listen to him above God the Creator.
Our Father therefore will
only intervene if it is requested
by men during their prayers.
This leaves men in authority as
was the original plan back in the
Garden of Eden.
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