A Time to Slow Down and Pray

The world is so much bigger than our little lives, isn't it? When conversation centers around houses, rentals, apartments, cars, loan payments, phone payments, and bigger, better toys is there any room to consider what's happening in the hurting world around us? There are riots on the streets of Baltimore, ten thousand plus have lost their lives in Nepal, and brothers and sisters in the faith are relentlessly oppressed by ISIS in the Middle East. Now I must ask myself... why am I not using my foundation of blessing to tarry in prayer for the world.

We have to be careful not to loose ourselves in guilt. Rather, let us evaluate our lives and discern how we can help. Let us give thanks for what we have been given, then let us also be ready to give whatever we can for those who have lost so much.

Then let us go to our knees in prayer for the nations. We who are in fortunate circumstances let us give of our time, our finances, and our hearts in prayerful consideration for those whose lives are being ripped apart. There is something God can do through any willing heart. Therefore let's carve out 15-30 minutes or maybe even an hour or two of our day and pray for a world that is breaking before our very lives.

May Christ heal the broken!