A Prayer for these Uncertain TImes

Encouraging prayer God offers an open invitation for his people to talk with him at any time about anything urgent prayer. Dr. James Banks fall through the best-selling and many other books on prayer provides weekly biblical insight help you learn to love and now James, I love your ride shows encouraging prayer we know we all could use that without further ado let's let's get to it all right.

Well, in the wake of the coded 19 situation.

We all find ourselves in high it just seems that this is a time where we need to take this time to pray.

So wherever you are.

Our listeners today, I encourage you please join with us pray with us. God exists outside of time so the prayers that were praying.

Even if you hear this recorded. You can pray along and God knows that's kind of a philosophical thought, the beautiful thing is that we have a father who longs for us to call on him. So that's what were going to do now. The other night I heard my friend Bill Crowder. Pray for the our daily bread community with a approach that covered the circles around us. You know your own personal life and family and then community and and going on from there. And that's how I'd like us to pray today so looking to go ahead Robbie and I just pray together and come to tagteam and jump in, as the Lord leads. Let's pray Lord, we do praise you that you are faithful in every circumstance where we can feel it or not you are there because you have promised to be there for us and your word cannot fail. So tonight today as we pray, we ask the beauty of your spirit to help us and to to fill us and to lead us right now. We begin by praying for our own personal needs. Lord you you know how many of us are worried about our family members and there are are concerns that we may lose some of them there are concerns of other needs among us and father we pray for our immediate families. We pray for those who are worried about war. We pray for health that you would protect us that you would give us wisdom that you would help us to take this concern seriously and also to trust you because you have not given us a spirit of fear.

Thank you. You've given us a spirit of love, power, self-discipline, just Lord and help us to keep focused on you individually as that other people are looking at us some light and have a stop to observe the waves, but to just keep her hand out there like Peter did grab it so you can bolus up as we begin to sink. Help us to focus on your board, Lord, help us not to be like those who are just hoarding stuff out there and so fearful you told us. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow has enough trouble of its own and have we seen that lightly help us to to look to you to keep our eyes on you. Our hearts focused on you and so we pray also for our churches. We pray Lord that you would use this to revive us. Would you use us to bring revival around the world.

Thank you for for jarring us out of the sense of denial of our mortality that we listen.

Help us to turn to you more and more to be more dependent to be more helpless as we simply look to you in prayer we can do nothing without you.

So we pray for our churches help us all to realize that helper communities as well. Lord, there are so many were going to financial difficulties you, you know those particular needs.

Lord, would you intervene miraculously, would you give special wisdom to those who are wondering how they can make ends meet. What you would you bless them.

Robbie got slammed on. Please give the leaders in local communities on the first responders in the hospital people and administrations and all my goodness they need your wisdom, nor they need your love. Help them to feel your presence and fill your comfort and that you're there with them.

In this tragedy. Yes yes Lord, we pray for those who are seeking to find a remedy to this Lord you you know what it is and you can leave them whether they know you are not.

We pray your supernatural wisdom. Your genius would anoint them and they would see it and even realize that it did not come from them that it came for you. Father we pray for larger communities would prefer states and we pray for our national government. We ask that you would help us all to work together. We pray that you would give wisdom to all of our leaders that you would keep them safe that you would protect them. Lord, we do pray again for a remedy for a vaccine, but for everything that needs to be done in this unprecedented circumstance. We thank you for the wisdom you've already given. We pray that you would multiply that and have us help us to have the right spirit of of simply cooperating together against this common enemy of the survivors. I think second Chronicles tried for work, humble ourselves and seek your face seek your face. That's what we we desperately need and and I pray that you would give us the gift of that faith of of being able to to truly turn to you and away from our wicked ways that you might turn in and heal our land. Yes, Lord, build strength in us build resilience in us. Help us Lord, thank you for that.

When we call on your name, you do indeed hear from heaven and you are good and you know how to give good gifts to your children, and so we ask, do what you alone can do. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you and so is your word says we rest in the shelter of your wings until the disaster has passed all our beautiful Savior we praise you. You are greater than this and you will be this out. You are the good Shepherd.

We worship you thank you Lord that no matter what happens when you can look forward to you. This is our prayer in Jesus name, amen.

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