Prayers for Your City
Keeping the promise of my blog, praying for your city on the first Thursday of the month, I have been inspired by current events. Praying for one city specifically over a six-year span, we covered current situations.
A city my family use to live in reported a teenage girl disappearing earlier this week. And a neighboring city reported a young woman disappearing within days of each other.
These stories are heartbreaking and terrifying. They are not new; we have seen headlines for decades about missing people.
Everything is seen by God. Hebrews 4:13
God reveals deep and secret things. Daniel 2:22
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, sites that “600,000 people go missing every year.” It goes on to say that many are located easily due to being lost, while “tens of thousands remain missing”.
Can we ask God to reveal and free anyone who has been taken or is lost?
God asks us to pray.
Prayer is conversation filled with thank-yous, questions, and requests, to our Father. And at times those requests are pleadings for answers.
God asks us to pray for the welfare of the city we live in.
Prayer is war.
Doubt surfaces when we pray for what seems too big to be answered. That is okay. Doubt was at the cross.
A spiritual war was happening then.
A spiritual war is happening now.
Will you pray bold prayers…knowing…
God’s word is truth.
God’s word is alive.
God’s word is power.
Called to Pray
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Lord,
We lift up to you the people in our cities who have gone missing, recently and over the years.
Free them from where ever they are. Reveal what is hidden.
Give wisdom to those who are searching for these missing individuals.
Bring your perfect comfort to their loved ones.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Thank you for praying with me. The website for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System is Home | NamUs (ojp.gov). Further bible verses that speak to this post are Hebrews 4:12, John 17:17.
Thank you for this reminder. There is so much to pray for in regards to our community and the world that it’s difficult to see results these days. It’s easy to lose heart. To stop praying. I recently realized that I need to look for the small, daily answers as well as the big ones. Some seeds are so tiny they are barely visible. Some are buried deep. Eventually, they grow into something beautiful. Then they spread more seeds. More change. More hope. I don’t want to miss even the tiniest sprout…so I’m not only going to pray for my community and the messed-up world but that I see and thank God for the smallest of answered prayers. Everything starts out small, even hope. And I need hope. Our communities and the world need hope. Thanks, Michele.
Beautiful reminder Dianne. A fire starts with a spark, like the hope you spoke of. Love it! Grateful for your insight.
Thank you sister Michele for your heart of prayer and your dedication to trust in Jesus for the healing and the miracles we desperately need in our world. 🙏❤️
Thank you Anthony. Amen.
Fervently praying for these situations. Claiming their safe returns to their families. I rebuke the adversary out of our communities!
Amen. Yes and Amen!