Topic: Daniel’s Dose: Adventure 29- Do you intercede for others; for the future?
Bible Reading: Daniel 9
Memory Verse: Daniel 9:3 (NKJV)
Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen! How are you doing? How has your day been so far? I pray that you are doing well and enjoying your day! Sammie’s Daily Dose is back again this week with Daniel’s Dose. This week, we would be embarking on some interesting adventures through Daniel 9. Our first adventure will be to explore the theme/ topic, “Do you intercede for others; for the future?” Are you ready? Let us get right into it!
When you pray, what do your pray for? Who do you pray for? What do you pray about? Many people pray about themselves, and issues relating to their personal lives; i.e. family, occupation, wealth, friends. Do we stand to intercede for others? For people who are in worse situations than we are? For the well-being of non- Christians? For the future of the church? For the future of Christians in a few years to come?
Prayer is communication with God! Prayer is one of the means by which we tell God what we want and need! However, we must not only present our requests to God. As Christians, we must pray for others. Do not justify this statement, by praying for friends and neighbors. Yes, praying for friends and neighbors is important! However, it must not stop there! We must go on to pray for other Christians (those you know and do not know), and non-Christians.
In addition to this, we must pray for the future! The future of the world we are in! the future of the church! We, as Christians, must come together to pray for the future; especially now! With the outbreak of COVID-19, the world is never going to be the same. We must spend time to pray for Christians, to pray for non-Christians; the future is going to be different! Most of the things we may have planned to do; might take a different cause!
During this pandemic, have you said a prayer for someone who lives in the US, or maybe Brazil? Have you prayed about your country and its leaders? Have you prayed about a cure/ v