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.