We are truly saddened to hear about the floods that have struck Karnataka, Kerala, and Chennai. We stand with the people affected by this devastating event, and we trust in the power of prayer to bring comfort, strength, and hope during this challenging time. While we have received the prayer request, we want to first mention that we are a Christian prayer group, so we aren't able to provide prayers unless we are asked to pray from a Christian view.
As we consider this prayer request, we remember the words of Jesus in Matthew 7, Verses 7 through 11 WEB:
Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
So, we will address this post with a word of caution that without knowing who you are praying too, we can not pray together. However we do hope that the information provided will help you find healing as you struggle with your problem. Let our faith be strengthened as we continue to support those affected by natural disasters across the world and let those providing assistance exhibit God's love, mercy, and compassion for all.
In the future, keep the name of Jesus Christ in your prayer requests. Philippians 2.9-11 WEB states:
Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father..
The name of Jesus Christ is so powerful that when praying to God he told us to pray in the name of Jesus Christ as told to us in John 14.13-14 WEB:
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it..
We must also remember that we don't come to God by any other name or manner. There is no other way to God but Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 14.6 WEB, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me..
In Jesus Christ, we have salvation, hope, peace, joy, and much more. Without him, we are unable to have access to God.
We must have knowledge of Jesus Christ and his death for the forgiveness of sins on the cross. Also, believing in his resurrection that he paid for our sins on the cross, and we must receive him as Lord and Savior and believe on his resurrection inorder to be a child of God. This enables access to God, eternal life, and much more. This is the way to salvation.
Romans 3.23 WEB states, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God, There is no one that is good, not even one. So, BECAUSE of the mass sin against God, we need a savior. Jesus knew no sin. God had Jesus crucified on the cross as a willing servant, and Jesus did this in order to save us from our sin.
Romans 6.23 WEB states, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord..
Truly, God has given you, me, and each reader of this message a way OUT of sin and death with out a cost to us. Yes, the gift comes at the large cost to God the Father and Jesus Christ, but we must receive it in faith. And faith alone is the one thing that receives the FREE gift - free for us, not to those who paid for it.
In this day of uncertainty about God and salvation, let us turn to Jesus Christ and receive him by faith.
Romans 10.9-11 states: that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
Today, let us come to Christ by faith and in faith. And by faith, let us continue.