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Remembering to Pray for Israel:
God tells us to pray for Israel. They are His chosen people, and they have loved Him through the centuries, they were born with a passion to know Him, and serve Him. The Nation of Israel is a sacred place, and it is the place where New Jerusalem will be established and admired by the world, as God establishes His Kingdom on Holy Ground.
Ps 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure. 7 May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels." 8 For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you." 9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
Remembering to Pray for our Nation, Government and the World:
Lets face the facts. America has fallen short in many areas of interest. But because of the prayers of the faithful, America is still the most prosperous nation in the world. Through the prayers of God's people and the interaction of political issues, things will change. God hears and answers the prayers of the righteous.
Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Remembering to Pray for the Missionaries:
Most Church denominations sponsor Missionaries. These men, women and children give their entire lives for the purpose of ministering to the lost and less fortunate.
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Remembering to Pray for the Poor and Destitute, Orphans and Widows:
All over the world people suffer from poverty. Many are homeless living under bridges and in abandoned buildings. More and more children are abandoned with no one to love and care for them. Husbands and wives who have shared their lives together for years, often face the death of their mate, becoming isolated and lonely.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Remembering to Pray for the Body of Christ:
The Body of Christ needs one another to pray. We need corporate and personal prayers. We are to hold each other up and encourage our brothers and sisters in the faith. When one hurts we all hurt, when ones experiences joy we enter into their joy.
John 17: 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Remembering to Pray for the Persecuted Church:
World wide, Christian's are targets of persecution and hate. In Third World Countries it is necessary to go underground, to hold Bible studies and pray for the sick and hurting.
2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Remembering to Pray for the Last Day Harvest:
We are all called to be laborers together, no one is exempt. We can make a difference when we walk in our calling. Ask the Lord what He would like you to do.
Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Remembering to Pray for the Return of Christ:
The return of Christ is quickly approaching, and we are never to doubt or say in our hearts, that Jesus delays His coming. Remember He is coming to take His Beloved Bride home. Rejoice because we are glory bound!
1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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