By Matt at The Church of No PeopleDoes your church open the floor on Sunday morning for prayer requests?
What’s the most requested prayer?
My guess is most people want to pray for healing.
Every Sunday we open the floor to prayer requests. Sure, we get a sprinkling of other concerns. But I can always count on the old standby “someone I know is sick” prayer. I almost don’t know if I could give a prayer in front of my church without “lifting someone up” and asking that “healing hand” of the “Great Physician” would “be upon them.”
And yet I dread it when that’s all we have to pray about. It’s apparent why we make health related prayers the most. Being sick is the most obvious problem a person probably has. But I hate just praying for recovery. I want people to know that suffering can glorify God. It’s in the Bible.
This may sound terrible, but when poor old Pope John Paul II was at the end of his
very long life, and the Parkinson’s he had suffered with for a
long time had made him a shell of his former self, and the
biggest mercy he could recieve would be to die and see the Lord, I was appalled to see people on TV saying they were just saying a little prayer that his life would be extended. While you’re at it, go ahead and say a little prayer that poor old Dick Clark does one more heartbreaking New Year’s special.
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