Pray for the Children
Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer. Plead for your children as they faint with hunger in the streets. Lamentations 2:19
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When Jerusalem was devastated by the enemy and the people lay in hopelessness, Jeremiah called to them, “Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.” This meant a call to earnest prayer, prayer with tears (water), especially on behalf of the starving children. He exhorted them that instead of fainting in despair, they should turn to God as their only hope and cry out to him, not stopping but praying all night if necessary. Children in our own country may not experience the same level of hunger in the physical sense, but millions are starving spiritually. At the school right down the street from your house there are children who are dying spiritually, starving for the truth, with no one to show them the way. Pray for these children. Pray for their parents to come to know Christ, for mothers to rise up in intercession for every school. Pray for Christian teachers to fill our classrooms and for a great awakening to happen throughout our land.
Prayers:
LORD, give me a burden for lost children in my neighborhood, city, and nation, even for the children of other nations, and increase my faith to intercede for them. Bring others near to pray with me for this generation of children and young people. I ask that you would raise up workers so that children who are starving physically, emotionally, or spiritually, would find all their needs met in you.
Quotes:
We must have praying mothers to give them birth, praying homes to influence their lives, and praying surroundings to impress their minds and to lay the foundation for praying lives. Praying Samuels come from praying Hannahs.
E. M. Bounds (1835–1913)
The One Year Bible Readings for today are: Lamentations 1:1–2:22; Philemon 1-25; Psalm 101:1-8 and Proverbs 26:20.
