How
to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Jeff Lampl
Jeff Lampl
One way to avoid “death by Suburb” is to pray, in particular
to pray not for. . . . .
yourself but for others.
Read Philippians 1:9-11 (click on
the passage and the scripture will appear)
Sometimes the best thing to when we are feeling down,
depressed and hopeless is take the focus off ourselves and to focus on
others.
A very important way to do this is through prayer. It’s an odd thing but it’s front and center
in Jesus’s teaching. When we “die to
ourselves” and put others ahead of ourselves we are blessed. When we lose our lives for Christ’s sake, we
find our lives. In praying for others
we put both Christ and others ahead of our feelings and needs. In doing so we have opened a door for God to
enter into us with his healing.
Job, a man who had terrible things
happen to him, found himself delivered from them and his life restored to
something better than he could have dreamed.
How did this happen?
“When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD
restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD
gave him twice as much as before!” Job 42:10 (NLT)
Click the link above and pray for your friends the prayer
that Paul prayed for the believers in Philippi.
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