Romans 10:1-17
As we continue our series on praying for lost loved ones, we find a wonderful, beautiful promise of God in our scripture that should encourage us as we pray. What is this promise? Paul utters it three times.
In Deuteronomy 4, Moses was speaking to the people shortly before he died. Beginning at verse fifteen, he warns the people not to fall into idolatry. They had never seen God as a form or shape. Furthermore, the sun, moon, and stars were objects that God had created. Moses told them to be careful so that they would not forget the covenant of the Lord their God for God is a jealous God.
The third ranked goal of the Strategic Plan for the Churches of God (Holiness) as presented to the General Convention in June 2005 is to encourage prayer. COGH.net will be promoting this goal in the next few weeks with a series on “Prayers for the Lost”, inspired by this article by The Navigators. For this week, we will focus on what John 6:22-66 teaches us about praying for the lost.
John 6:22-66 would have made a good story for the late-Paul Harvey’s “Rest of the Story.” The events immediately preceding this scripture are well known. A huge crowd had followed Jesus into the mountains seeking his healing and listening to his teaching. When it got late, Jesus tested his disciples and then miraculously provided food for the people to eat. The people wanted to make Jesus their king, but Jesus avoided their schemes by sending the disciples away, dismissing the crowd, and going up into the mountain to pray.
