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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Isaiah 38:19 (Pt. 3) Thought/Prayer: Praying for Unknown People: Effective? Topics: 2 at end
After King Hezekiah was granted a miracle of life from the Lord, he says, “The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.” KJV http://www.bible.com (Read this scripture and more at http://prayerpivot.com)
We often write here that we must pray for those unknown to us, even for those whose involvement with life/death in the womb is known to perhaps only one or two persons in the this Earthly world. We pray for attitudes and sins these people keep in secret (alongside our own long lists of them). Is there any point to this? How can our prayers for someone we don’t know, who has a secret problem or sin kept tight, accomplish anything? Am I just in a state of naivety?
No. Naivety does not apply here. But God does. Because He is everywhere, all the time, and is all-knowing, the fact that we do not know for whom we pray matters not an iota. He matters. He knows each and every person in the world, knows every detail of them and their lives, and his Spirit intercedes for us when we do not know how to pray (Romans 8:26 KJV). So we should not think of ourselves as silly for thinking we can make a difference in this way. We can!
Perhaps we could think of it as the great experiment in praying with a blindfold on. Just because we can’t see what is going on doesn’t mean our minds and hearts are not at work. Blindfold or not, our inner selves continue to think and hope and process words and prayers. This is quite good.
So when we feel led to pray for certain people or a certain group of people in a certain and similar circumstance, do it! By believing not in our prayers, but in the God Who answers, we gain a positive slant here, one that God makes effective. He is the one who will convict in answer to prayer; He is the one who can see into the future, see a shocked father-to-be and convict and prod until that man does the right thing by his preborn offspring.
Lord, help us to realize that even though we may feel a bit unsettled to think of praying in this way, you settle us (I Peter 5:10, KJV), and you answer these prayers even if they are said in general, to include groups of people. Even then you know each specific person who needs the answer to that particular prayer. When we pray for “all fathers who have just been shocked with the mention of a pregnancy,” you know who each of those men is. You intercede for us. Your Spirit is faithful to do this.
Topics: Pray for understanding about prayers for those we will never know or see, that we may be faithful to trust God because He knows who they are and what they need, especially with unexpected pregnancies.
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