PRAYER FOR TODAY WEDNESDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 2023 – A PRAYER TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST

DAILY PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY.

Engage these Daily Prayer and Scriptures for today. Take to God all that you desire in prayers, while you watch restfully as he steps into situations to bring out beauty and colour in your live. Today, as you commune with God, know that God has settled all that concerns you, Just believe and pray with faith in your heart. Remain blessed in Jesus name, Amen.

Today’s Prayer is Authored by: Lynette Kittle

Prayer Focus For Today 15th February 2023: A Prayer to Lead Others to Christ

“Remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins”–James 5:20
It can feel awkward at times, even somewhat forced, to talk to others about our faith. However, if we are who we say we are, sharing God’s love and His Salvation through Jesus Christ can flow naturally from us, like breathing. Growing up as a pastor’s kid, I experienced the rejection that often comes with being known as a Christian. Sadly, it wasn’t even because I was outspoken about it but because others knew my Dad was a pastor. Consequently, it became where I didn’t say much of anything to anyone about God. As a kid and teenager, I just wanted to fit in, to be accepted and liked, and to be included and invited to outings and parties.

Although I really did love God, it wasn’t something I made known, kind of like a secret agent type of faith persona. Even though I cared about people, it was something I didn’t feel comfortable talking about with others because I didn’t want to be rejected. But then, in high school, I started dating a guy who was known for leading others to Salvation in Christ. Everyone knew he was a Christian, carrying his Bible to school and wearing a homemade wooden cross around his neck. Down inside me, I deeply respected his outgoing witness and realized he modeled what I really wanted in my own life, to be known for my relationship with God.

Walking Through Rejection

Although it’s hard for men and women to face rejection as Christians, we have a Savior who knows our pain and can help us walk through it because “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem” (Isaiah 53:3). Jesus truly understands how it feels to be not only rejected but hated and has told us we’re not the first to experience it. “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first” (John 15:18)

As far as our faith goes, we can be encouraged when we are rejected and hated because it serves as evidence that we are following in Christ’s footsteps. “If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you” (John 15:19).

Like 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 reminds us, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” As well, Romans 8:38 reassures us, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

PRAYER FOR TODAY.

Let’s pray:

Dear Father,
Forgive me for being hesitant, unwilling, or afraid to share the truth of Your love and hope with those around me. Help me to be bold as a lion (Proverbs 28:1) in sharing the Good News with those I come in contact with, including my family, friends, co-workers, and my community. Strengthen me to do all things through You who gives me strength (Philippians 4:13).

Thank you, dear Lord, that Your grace is sufficient for me, and that Your power is made perfect in my weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). Like King David proclaimed, You are my light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear or be afraid of? (Psalm 27:1). Empower me to follow in Jesus’ footsteps to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God (Luke 4:43). Strengthen me to follow as He instructed, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation’ (Mark 16:15).

Lord, move through me to draw men and women to You. Let your light shine through me in such a way it leads them to You, Father (Matthew 5:16).
In Jesus’ name, Amen

This Is the Assurance of Answers to Your Prayers – Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!