This week at our church has been set aside as a week of prayer. As part of that observance, we put together a "Daily Bread" style devotional on prayer. Each entry was contributed by one of our missionaries or pastors.
Day Five
What is the best thing that you can pray for another Christian. We often pray for each other for health, financial and family issues, but in today's prayer devotional we are challenged to pray like the apostle Paul. Nick Rachevsky reminded us from Philippians 1:9-11 that the apostle Paul prayed for character on behalf of the Philippians rather than just physical and material needs.
This fits so well with the overall tone of the Scriptures. Christ did not die for us just so we would have an improved situation - so that circumstances would be favourable towards us. Christ died to make us new people in Him. We ought to pray for one another that the process of God conforming us to the image of his own dear son (Romans 8:29) would be continued in our lives today.
Day Five
What is the best thing that you can pray for another Christian. We often pray for each other for health, financial and family issues, but in today's prayer devotional we are challenged to pray like the apostle Paul. Nick Rachevsky reminded us from Philippians 1:9-11 that the apostle Paul prayed for character on behalf of the Philippians rather than just physical and material needs.
This fits so well with the overall tone of the Scriptures. Christ did not die for us just so we would have an improved situation - so that circumstances would be favourable towards us. Christ died to make us new people in Him. We ought to pray for one another that the process of God conforming us to the image of his own dear son (Romans 8:29) would be continued in our lives today.
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