Praying for God's Strength for the weak and the humbled

 

INTRODUCTION:

Thank you for joining us on the Prayer and Faith Podcast today.    The world is desperately in need of Jesus.   The lost need Jesus and his Salvation and forgiveness.  Governments need Jesus and his wisdom.   The Saints need Jesus and his righteousness and his strength.   

We are honored that you would join with us in prayer today as we intercede.   We are partnering with Jesus and he will respond to us as we pray today.  Just remember to keep believing as the Word of God makes clear: The Just shall live by faith.   

Join us and pray in faith for the weak.   Pray that they are encouraged.  If you know someone who fits that description, please lift them up in prayer.  If that person is you, please pray for yourself, muster your faith and pray and we will join our faith with yours.  

If you don’t know anyone that fits that description, pray in agreement with the Saints who are praying for specific people  Or maybe there is a specific group of Christians somewhere such as martyrs you want to lift up.  Please do so.   

Just a note.  All verses are taken from the ESV or English Standard Version translation.

FAITH BUILDER VERSE:

Matthew 6:6

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC:

While I was praying about the prayer topic for this podcast, I just felt like I heard the Lord speak Single mothers.  As I delved into it, I believe that was a starting point not the sole topic.  I believe the Lord wants us to pray for those who are weak and feel overwhelmed.    There are people all around us that feel like life is drowning them.   They are living lives where they may be facing severe lack of basic necessities.  They may be fighting a battle with an illnesss or disease.   Some are facing job or business pressures.  Others yet may  feel like an outsider in their own family.   There are believers out there that are feeling so overwhelmed they are wondering where God is in their situation.   Still others feel like their grasping at the very last shred of faith they have and are wondering if God loves them and has a plan for them.   I believe the Lord wants us to remind them of what he has said about weakness, that Jesus himself experienced weakness.  Weakness tends to leave us in humility and in that humility God can do his greatest work.

PSALM 72:13

He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

ROMANS 8:26

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

MATTHEW 18:4

Whoever humbles himself llke this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

MATTHEW: 23:12

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

PHILLIPIANS 2:8

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

JAMES 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

JAMES 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

RAYER FOR THE LOST:

This week we want to pray for the Native People in the Amazon jungle.  This is kind of personal to me because I have people I care about deeply who are serving as missionaries and these are the people they are serving.  I don’t know how many there are?  I don’t know if there has been a good census of of them at all.  I do know this.  Most of them have never heard the Gospel, and we want them to not only hear the Gospel but respond to it as well.

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