Monday, October 6, 2008

Evangelistic Praying

There is a song entitled "Tears of the Saints" that greatly captures what the Christian's response to this broken, dark, and sinful world should be . . .

"There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
And all Your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home"

What is your response to the broken community you live in? May your prayers this week be saturated with heartfelt cries that our Sovereign Lord would be might to save. Charles Spurgeon expressed such motivation in this way:

The Holy Spirit will move them first by first moving you. If you can rest
without their being saved, they will rest, too. But if you are filled with an
agony for them, if you cannot bear that they should be lost, you will soon find
that they are uneasy, too. I hope you will get into such a state that you will
dream about your child perishing for lack of Christ, and start up at once and
begin to cry, "O God, give me converts, or I die." Then you will have converts.

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