Who Are You Praying For Today?
I life up my eyes to the hills --
Where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
The Maker of heaven and earth.
-- Psalm 121:1-2
It seems like a season of pain and prayers. Everywhere I turn I see people who are hurting, people struggling with illness and pain, people facing surgery and people enduring beyond what they thought they ever could.
A dear friend had back surgery on Tuesday. Another friend needs it desperately but has to wait for an infection to clear up. Another dear woman, already coping with her husband’s Alzheimer’s, suffers debilitating back pain.
Another man had surgery a few weeks ago, then had to have another procedure. He’s still in incredible pain. A sweet older woman fell and is just so banged up.
A sweet lady learned last week that doctors found another spot on her lung. She’s been battling lung cancer for years and this was such a devastating blow. A sweet couple today took their son to a specialist for a serious ear problem that will likely need surgery.
Need I go on? It seems like so many people around me are facing health issues. Some of them, with the help of doctors and with God’s guidance, should be fine. Others will likely only have healing when they go home to be with Jesus.
It’s so easy to get discouraged, to forget that God is with us even when the path is rocky and seems to never end. Or maybe I should say especially when our path is rocky because He would never leave us to weather the storm alone.
Prayers. That’s what we can do when someone is hurting, when someone is dying, when someone feels hopeless. Sometimes we can give specific help in the form of food, company, rides to the doctor, etc. But we can always pray that God will grant them peace and strength, healing and hope.
We mean to pray, don’t we? We say we will and we fully intend to do it. Except sometimes we forget. Some people have prayer journals. Others try to remember. I try to pray right then or as soon as I can after I learn of the request. For some who are especially close to me, my prayers become a day long thing. Every time I think of them, I lift them up in prayer.
How about you? Who are you praying for today? Don’t put it off. We live in a hurting world that desperately needs God to love and keep them close.
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