“Therefore, He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He (Jesus) always lives to intercede for them.” Hebrews 7:25 (NIV)
Who are you praying for today? Several years ago, I would have said – I’m praying for me! Then I would rehearse all my needs, wants, etc. My list would go on forever. And God longs for us to bring our requests to His throne. Even though He knows our every need, God loves hearing the voice of His children calling on His name.
Right in the midst of my list giving to Jesus, He challenged me to take a deeper step. My prayers had become so “me” focused and now God wanted me to spend my Wednesdays in prayer for other women. So I wrote down on paper every Wednesday date for the rest of the year, and God filled up the blank spaces with the names of women. Some of these were women in ministry like Beth Moore or Priscilla Shirer. Other Wednesdays were devoted to women in our church, friends, total strangers I met along the way. Women I knew, women I had read about or seen speak and women I would never know personally. My conservations with God were totally dependent on Him for who to pray for and how to pray. Amazing how limited knowledge equals unlimited possibilities when prayers are brought to the feet of our all knowing God.
How does God want to enlarge our prayers? Perhaps interceding for an unsaved friend. Perhaps someone’s marriage is struggling and rather than spread the news, we choose to bend the knee. Perhaps God will fill our Wednesdays with strangers who need a special touch of His grace in their lives. What an incredible gift – what a sweet, fragrant offering – taking women to the feet of Jesus.
“Father, help us to become women who are intentional in taking our prayers to a deeper level – reflecting Jesus’ example to a world desperately in need of His intervention.”
For His Glory
Janet Martin
TRBC Women’s Life
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