Capital Memorial Church
›› Praying the Newspaper
Pray through the newspaper. The paper is full of needs, crises, hurts, and troubles that should cause the heart of the Christian to break. As Adventists with an end-time mind-set, we often look at the news with a prophetic sense of inevitability. “More signs of the times,” we say. “Jesus must be coming soon.” Sometimes our “sign watching” instills a subtle indifference in our attitudes toward suffering humanity—or, at the very least, a sense of helplessness. But there is something we can do. We can pray.
Each of these stories represents lives, real people who are hurting, desperate, and in need of Jesus. Read the paper with the eyes and heart of Christ, and ask God to mercifully intervene.
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