The Lord is good to all, and His mercy is over all that He has made. Psalm 145:9 As a new chaplain, I have had more numerous and frequent opportunities to pray for others than ever before in my life. As I’ve been given these opportunities, I’ve been learning to overcome a previous apprehension (and wrong thinking) that has stunted my intercessory prayer. Here is the typical flawed logic formerly at work in me. I would have a person open up to me about something hard in their life. Then I would make a determination based on what I know about their behavior/lifestyle as to whether God would delight to answer any of their prayer requests. Then I would pray, often over-spiritualizing my prayer since in my judgment I didn’t believe that God would answer the concrete request since the person didn’t have a relationship with Jesus. I’m sure you can easily spot the foolishness of this line of thinking! It ignores grace. And it d...
Reflections on a life lived for King Jesus.