Daily devotion – Saturday 28th August 2021
Afghanistan heartache!
We read today of a suicide bomber’s attack at Kabul and the tragic deaths (100 plus) and injuries suffered by those from the blast.
Sadly, 13 U.S. Marines, who were helping so many of the local Afghanistan people, passing babies over barb wire fences to safety, giving water to the masses stranded in the heat and danger at the gates of the airport, were also killed in the blast.
Let us now make our prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ in Afghanistan a consistent part of our intercessions when we go before the Lord. Too often, people pray at the time of a crisis but once a little time has passed, they drop away until there is complete neglect or ignorance of what was once a passion of urgency in prayer.
This can often be the case in our own lives. We become super prayers, begin attending prayer meetings, when trouble hits our lives, but sadly it becomes only a passing phase.
Once the critical issue is over we cease from prayer.
Paul teaches us, 1 Thessalonians 5: 16 “Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
In addition, when Paul was writing to the Church in Philippi, he said – Philippians 1: “To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy…”
Let us not drop away or weakly fade off into the ether as people of prayer!
We could learn dearly from our Lord who spent so much time in prayer that His disciples asked Him to teach them HOW TO PRAY…
Let us not be like those who were lukewarm in the Church of Laodicea but more like those who were part of the Church of Philadelphia.
Rev 3:10 – “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.