PRAY

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What am I doing here eating sweets,
when there are billions of people who just need a piece of dry bread to live to the next second.
What am I doing here as worship songs glide passively in and out of my ears,
when there are millions of people who are bound in emotional and physical slavery and walk around seemingly without souls,
much less know the name that saves.
What am I doing here, with so much love being poured into me everyday
when there are so many people out there just needing a word of encouragement not to break down and kill themselves.
I wish I could do something, I want to do something, I want the church to do something, I pray we will do something..
I wish I knew these people and I wish more than anything that I had access to them.
But I guess that's what prayer is for,
to transcend all boundaries.

"The prayer that prevails with God is the prayer into which we put our whole soul, stretching out toward God in intense and agonizing desire....If we put so little heart into our prayers, we cannot expect God to put much heart into answering them."
-R.A. Torrey

"How about reaching the end of ourselves so that we intercede as if there is no other option left?"

Comments

:) said…
John 15:16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit will remain so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you."

jia you!
March 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM
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