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Kristi writes:
Thanks for another great class tonight! I wanted to share with you an update on what we discussed the first night of class. I was telling you of the difficulty I'd always had about praying for our country and elections and so on because I knew from Scripture that things will "wax worse and worse" and I've seen how America has turned her back on God and become more wicked all the time.
I also assumed government and national decisions where out of our hands and only in Gods, who already has a plan for our world. But two weeks ago God met with me and directly and specifically answered each question I'd asked about praying for our nation.
After learning that God doesn't always get what He wants, that God's will doesn't always happen just because He wants it, we as His representatives must pray for it, I had one final question for Him: "Can one human repent for an entire nation's sins?". I asked this at the beginning of the Paul Wilbur concert we had recently and God immediately answered me there and confirmed it again in class, that yes, one human interceding can repent for an entire nation, regardless of if that nation is repentant as a whole or not (Ez. 20:30). Jeremiah, and others repented on behalf of the entire nation of Israel even when the people were still living in sin, and God is no respecter of persons. What He did for those great men, He will do for us.
This has changed the way I pray for this nation and for so many other things. That is just one of the many breakthroughs and growth spurts I've had in my prayer life in the last couple weeks as a result of the truths I'm learning in this class. I am so grateful to be a part of a church that not only places a strong focus on the power of prayer but also equips it's members to pray and intercede.
Thank you for your teachings, encouragement and sharing your passion for prayer, Mary Jo.
You are impacting me and I am very thankful. I lift you up to Him with appreciation and for you to be shored up and wonderfully strong and whole in Him.
Love in Him, Bob G
I feel so empowered by our Monday night class on prayer! Although through the years I've heard this message, hearing it again brings such new conviction and a desire to be enveloped in God's presence more often!
This empowerment carries over to Tuesday when we meet to lift up our prayers for the election. God wants us to stand for righteousness and we desire our leaders to be righteous men and women, who will be open to accountability and His direction.
Our prayers definitely matter and if only one man stands in the gap for righteousness, God sees and moves.....PTL!
Understanding that prayer can be an active partnership with God has changed my life! It is wonderful to know that God needs us to pray, and that "if He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him." A priceless revelation!
It is comforting to know that the names I lifted up to Him are being prayed for by other intercessors. I am excited to hear how God will bring revelation of His salvation to these loved ones.
The prayer room with the crosses is like a "Situation Room" in a major conflict. These are names that He wants to win, and we get to partner with Him to save them through Him. How humbling, yet empowering!
Ever since I read the chapter on travail and sat in on the class about it, I find myself "randomly" crying over prayer assignments. I am normally that laughing, jumping, dancing intercessor. The Lord has taken me to a new address! I am learning a new prayer expression and it is wonderful! He is messing me up in such a beautiful way!
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