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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
1 Timothy 2:1, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;”
Not only do we pray with God’s intentions passing through us, but also with His desires passing through us.
This is revealed in 1 Timothy 2:3-4: “God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
This means that God’s expressed desire is for all men to be saved.
So when we pray, we not only touch the larger scale of God’s intentions for the church and the kingdom, but we also allow God’s desires for all men to pass through us.
This includes God’s desires for everyone in your life–coworkers, neighbors, classmates, the mailman, the checker at the grocery store, the person you met today, as well as your family members and relatives.
Paul says that first of all there need to be supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings made for all men.
In spending time with the Lord we can allow God’s desires for others to pass through us.
Effectual prayer is made up of desire.
For example, we may want to see someone saved.
Yet, if in our prayer our own heart is not deeply moved for that one, such a prayer will never move the heart of God.
If we ourselves do not possess the desire to see someone saved, how could God’s desire ever be released in our prayer?
Paul illustrated this principle when he said, “Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we beseech you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God”.
This indicates that God’s desires are not merely kept within Himself.
They need a human channel to pass through.
God’s desire to see the lost saved must be located within our very being.
God’s desire must become our desire, culminating in our persevering in prayer for them.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
FRIDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
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Jodi Bateman
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Daniel Cooper
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Eric Ward
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
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Dan Haines
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June Cronan
Jillian Gray
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Darlene Thaxton
David Harrison
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Easton Fielder
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Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
June Cronan’s Sister
John Austin
John McClain
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Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller
Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christin
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier