James 5:16
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working”
A few weeks ago, I was blessed to gather in worship, and fellowship in one of the rallies with many of our Baptist family from all over the state. Once that beautiful service was over, and I was getting ready to leave, someone handed me an index card that they had found on the floor, I noticed it was an anonymous prayer list that read as follow:
1. Pray for Strength to do what is right
2. For understanding
3. For friends and family
4. Just pray, please help
As I read the words “Please help” my heart was burden for this person, so I brought the card back with me, I feel a great need to pray for this requests, and part of that prayer is for this person to know that it’s not alone.
As fellow believers we must pray for one another, but many times we tend to only pray for those that are close to us. Those that we see every day and we are familiar with, but very rarely we pray for those we don’t know. Many of our brothers and sisters around the world suffer persecution, and many don’t enjoy the same freedoms we do. They have burdens, and I know that we provide help for our brothers in need, but along that help, we should also bend our knees and join in prayer with them.
I do not know how long it will take for this anonymous prayer request to be answer. But my prayer is, that God’s Holy Spirit can let them know that someone is praying alongside them. I don’t believe that I was handed the index card by chance, but God placed it in my life, so that I can pray alongside this person in their life story. Let us pray for one another, and with that same spirit, won’t you join me today and pray for anonymous in Waco. That they're cry for help was heard, and for these prayer request to be answered. May God bless this person to obtain the strength to to what is right, for the understanding the Holy Spirit gives, for the friends and family that are part of this story, and for this person to be reassure that help is on the way.
Pastor Lius.