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Praying For Others

Day 198

Reading: Jeremiah 9:1 - Jeremiah 11:23

Jeremiah was burdened with his nation just like many are today. I don't know about you I am concerned about the state of the nations. When I look at my nation of birth, I grieve at how we proclaim ourselves as a Christian nation, politicians campaigning in church yet the evil we see is worse than ever. In my nation of residence, church buildings are being sold and turned to anything other than godly! As Isaiah prophesied that gross darkness would cover the earth indeed we are seeing this fulfilled Isaiah 60:2. 

While reading today's passages I was stirred within. I asked myself how much do I love the nations of the world? Do I desire to see God's plan executed over the nations or have I given up and said whatever will be will be? Have I become selfish that my prayers are only about me, myself and I and never for the good of the nations? When was the last time you prayed for the nation, city, town you live? And pray I don't mean the one-liner, I mean the intense prayer for the locality? We believers today are so heavenly minded that we only pray for our localities when we are unsettled which should not be the case. We ought to be the ones with manifesting the plan of God over our localities, cities, towns, villages, and nations. Prayer will enable us to manifest it remembering that God has given the earth to men and will only operate on earth on our request Psalms 115:16.

Every believer needs to understand that God uses power to create, wisdom to establish and discretion to array the solar system as it is. We need to understand that we need God's power to create that which He desires here on earth. Mankind was to continue creating the world that's why Eden was not the whole world. Mankind was to extend Eden as he walked in the blessing of dominion Genesis 1:28. 

To be established in that which God has created we need wisdom. The earth today is full of people walking by carnal wisdom yet God is desiring to pour divine wisdom over those who will seek it. Wisdom made Solomon establish Jerusalem and the nation of Israel as powerhouses. Gold became common in Jerusalem because of wisdom. Once we have established the purposes of God may God give us discretion that enables us to have an array of all his creation. 

I urge you to pray that God's power will manifest mightily enabling us to create in the earth that which He purposed. May God baptise us with wisdom that we may establish His Kingdom.  May God cause you and I to pray for the nations more than ever for He is the Righteous Judge. 

Memory Verse: Jeremiah 10:12

Decree:

Jeremiah 10:23
O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps. (italics mine)

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