Praying for your Neighbors

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.  Galatians 5:14

 

How often do you pray for your neighbors?  How often do you wish you could have a positive influence on the world around you and make a difference in your community and in the lives of others?  Blend those two questions and thoughts together and it makes for a very simple proposition which can have everlasting effects: Pray for your neighbors.

 

It works like this:

1. Open your prayer time by acknowledging God, His greatness, and His wonderful powers;
2. Confess your sins, ask the Lord to reveal in your heart those areas in your life which need the light of the Word, His forgiveness, and redemption;
3. Thank God for those blessings which you've received.
4. Now, think about the neighbors which live on either side of you.  Lift up one and then the other neighbor to God by name, asking for His grace to cover them, for them to know Him, to have knowledge of His saving grace, for provision in their life.  If you know of specific struggles that they are dealing with, ask for our Heavenly Father to help them through it.
5. Repeat daily.

 

"...being watchful..."  Observe and pay attention to how the Lord changes your relationship with your neighbors... how does he answer your prayers... do you see His hand in their life?

 

Simple!

 

Grace and peace to you...

 

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