I have a praying problem.
Holding others in prayer, I have various levels of faith in the answer.
1. For two years, now, one of my grandchildren has fallen out with her Mother. I don't know the details, but it goes so far that letters sent by my daughter are returned unopened. Although she may admit that she was perhaps not blameless in the first instance, my daughter is worried to distraction.
In England next Sunday (11.03.2018) is Mothering Sunday when cards are sent and visits made, so my ardent prayer has been that some truce may be made, and I have every expectation that it will. So praises be.
However, thoughts are turned to Luke 12:51-53, and who am I to pray against Jesus' purposes ?
2. I suppose that we all pray for our children and their individual beliefs and salvation. My remaining three children, (now each very adult), I consider to be strong in the Faith, but I still pray for them, and that gives me pause for thought when I read Luke 16:19-31. Admittedly, here the prayerful requests were to Abraham, but it still makes me wonder, what degree of faith may we assume in the results of our prayers for others ?
3. You may notice that I referred to the remaining three children. That is because one of our sons was drowned when he was sixteen years old, and it is possible to associate prayer for him and his prayer for us with the latter situation.
Prayers for others ????
Holding others in prayer, I have various levels of faith in the answer.
1. For two years, now, one of my grandchildren has fallen out with her Mother. I don't know the details, but it goes so far that letters sent by my daughter are returned unopened. Although she may admit that she was perhaps not blameless in the first instance, my daughter is worried to distraction.
In England next Sunday (11.03.2018) is Mothering Sunday when cards are sent and visits made, so my ardent prayer has been that some truce may be made, and I have every expectation that it will. So praises be.
However, thoughts are turned to Luke 12:51-53, and who am I to pray against Jesus' purposes ?
2. I suppose that we all pray for our children and their individual beliefs and salvation. My remaining three children, (now each very adult), I consider to be strong in the Faith, but I still pray for them, and that gives me pause for thought when I read Luke 16:19-31. Admittedly, here the prayerful requests were to Abraham, but it still makes me wonder, what degree of faith may we assume in the results of our prayers for others ?
3. You may notice that I referred to the remaining three children. That is because one of our sons was drowned when he was sixteen years old, and it is possible to associate prayer for him and his prayer for us with the latter situation.
Prayers for others ????