How to Pray for a Broken World — Two2Grow, Saturday, November 14
“So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is sick.’” John 11:3 NIV
This world is truly broken. There is so much anger, anxiety, hatred, lying, violence, and division. People we meet every day are caught up in the chaos. This can leave us perplexed and passive. But Jesus calls us to pray for this world, just as He did and still does. Yet what to pray is often not easy to find out.
“Lord, the one you love is sick” was the message the two sisters, Martha and Mary, sent to Jesus when their brother Lazarus was very sick and about to die. Jesus responded to their prayer, though later than expected, when Lazarus had already died. But Jesus brought him back to life.
So we know that this prayer is one that Jesus hears, and that no matter how the present looks, perhaps as if Jesus is far away and things are heading into death, at the end of it is a manifestation of God’s resurrection power!
I have come to see today’s verse as the perfect prayer that I echo over and over again over the world and all the broken people in it.
So let’s pray this prayer in confidence and faith over ourselves, our loved ones, and our world!
Pastor Mikael Stenhammar, PhD
This world is truly broken. There is so much anger, anxiety, hatred, lying, violence, and division. People we meet every day are caught up in the chaos. This can leave us perplexed and passive. But Jesus calls us to pray for this world, just as He did and still does. Yet what to pray is often not easy to find out.
“Lord, the one you love is sick” was the message the two sisters, Martha and Mary, sent to Jesus when their brother Lazarus was very sick and about to die. Jesus responded to their prayer, though later than expected, when Lazarus had already died. But Jesus brought him back to life.
So we know that this prayer is one that Jesus hears, and that no matter how the present looks, perhaps as if Jesus is far away and things are heading into death, at the end of it is a manifestation of God’s resurrection power!
I have come to see today’s verse as the perfect prayer that I echo over and over again over the world and all the broken people in it.
So let’s pray this prayer in confidence and faith over ourselves, our loved ones, and our world!
Pastor Mikael Stenhammar, PhD