In a previous post I shared the first of two practices that I want to encourage us to engage in this coming year that will help keep God as the "one thing" in our lives. This practice is one I have developed more recently and so I am gradually trying to make it a habit. I hope you will be prodded to do the same.
PRAY WHO THEY CAN BECOME:
At the heart of this practice is simply lifting up a short silent prayer on behalf each person you come in contact with in the course of your day. We don't need to know where they are at in their spiritual journey all we need to pray is that they would become all that God created them to me. Ephesians 2:10 is a great verse that speaks to this notion, "For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life."
Now if we know the person, we may offer a specific request on their behalf, yet with the same spirit praying that they would become of who God intends for them to be. Jesus gave us a great example in how he saw Peter when He said in Matthew 16:18 "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it." When Jesus made this declaration hardly anyone could imagine Peter in this light, yet Jesus did not only see Peter as he was, but who he could become.
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