When People I Love Are in Trouble
Because of Separation from God
 
"More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~
"Idylls of the King"

DEAR GOD, YOU HAVE CALLED ME to the awesome opportunity of intercessory prayer.

Today, I want to pray for the people You have put on my prayer agenda who are in trouble because of sin in their lives.

I know from my own life the pain and anguish my own sins have caused me and other people. Out of gratitude and praise for Your forgiveness of me, I want to pray for people I love.

Lord, before it's too late, open their hearts to Your love.

Now in this time of intimate conversation with You, show me how I can be part of Your pursuit of them. Enable me to know what to do and say, when and how I am to incarnate Your love by intervening with comfort or confrontation.

Praying Through the Tough Times
(c) 2005 Lloyd John Ogilvie
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
Pages 138,139