prayer

he following prayer was penned by Ray Comfort:

Father, I have a problem,

It's weighing heavy on me.

It's all I can think about,

night and day.

Before I bring it to you in prayer.

I suppose I should pray for those

who are less fortunate than me--

Those in this world who have

hardly enough food for this day,

and for those who don't have

a roof over their heads at night.

I also pray for families

who have lost loved ones

in sudden death,

for parents whose children

have leukemia,

for the many people who are

dying of brain tumors,

for the hundreds of thousands

who are laid waste with

other terrible cancers,

for people whose bodies

have been suddenly

shattered in car wrecks,

for those who are lying

in the hospital with agonizing

burns over their bodies,

whose faces have been

burned beyond recognition.

I pray for people with emphysema,

whose eyes fill with terror

as they struggle for every

breath merely to live,

for those who are tormented

beyond words by irrational fears,

for the elderly who are wracked

with the pains of aging,

whose only "escape" is death.

I pray for people who are watching

their loved ones fade before their eyes

through the grief of Alzheimer's disease,

for the many thousands

who are suffering

the agony of AIDS,

for those who are in such despair

they are about to commit suicide,

for people who are tormented

by the demons of

alcoholism and drug addiction.

I pray for children

who have been abandoned

by their parents,

for those who are sexually abused,

for wives held in quiet despair,

beaten and abused by

cruel and drunken husbands,

for people whose minds

have been destroyed

by mental disorders,

for those who have lost everything

in floods, tornadoes,

hurricanes, and earthquakes.

I pray for the blind,

who never see the faces

of the ones they love,

or the beauty of a sunrise,

for those whose bodies are

horribly deformed by painful arthritis,

for the many whose lives

will be taken from them today

by murderers,

for those wasting away

on their death beds.

Most of all,

I cry out for the millions

who don't know the forgiveness

that is in Jesus Christ...

for those who in a moment of time

will be swept into Hell

by the cold hand of death,

and find to their utter

horror the unspeakable

vengeance of eternal fire.

They will be eternally damned

to everlasting punishment.

Oh God, I pray for them.

Strange ...

I can't seem to remember

what my problem was ...

In Jesus' name I pray, Amen!

"Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men." (I Timothy 2:1)

Intercession means to go to God in prayer on behalf of someone else. What a blessing to know that not only do Jesus Christ (Heb. 7:25) and the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:26-27) intercede on our behalf, but we also have the privilege of being able to intercede for one another.

Why not take a moment to pray for others you know who are in need this day.