Welcome to "Pray for Altoona". This is the first official post! I hope and pray that this site will be a helpful tool for those who would like to pray for this community using specifics.
As Melissa & I have felt the Lord calling us back to Altoona, we've been overwhelmed by the need for prayer. Prayer for the churches, prayer for government officials, prayer for the unsaved, prayer against addiction and the list could go on and on and on.
You see, the things that we're asking God to do in Altoona (and around the world) involve miracles of biblical proportions! The adulterous man leaving his lover and returning to his wife, the drunkard & drug addict casting aside his debilitating addictions and choosing a life of quiet productivity, the homosexual woman abandoning the lifestyle she has become so used to and surrendering her life to the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. As we meditate on each of these few examples we must come to grips with the fact that it is a vast MINORITY of cases in which we see these positive outcomes become reality.
Why? Well, there could be a whole host of reasons as to why we don't see more examples of lives changed in Altoona (not to mention around the world) ... but here is the question that I would like for us to chew on today:
- Have we persistently asked God to do these miracles in our midst?
- Have we consistently asked God on a daily basis to change our city into a community that better glorifies Him?
As you're asking these questions for yourself, keep in mind the many admonitions of the new testament:
"For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to
the one who knocks it will be opened." Matthew 7:8
"Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will
receive, that your joy may be full." John 16:24
Today: Pray that God gives us a heart to cry out to him in faith ...
1 comments:
Thanks for the post, Vince. In the book of James we are told we do not have because we do not ask, and when we ask, we ask for the wrong reasons (for our own pleasure). The salvation of men and women, the strengthening of God's church, and the glory of God seem to me to be requests that align with God's will. I hope this blog is a reminder to our city to seek, ask and knock...
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