Saturday 12 March 2011

Prayer for Japan

I was shaken up watching the scene in Japan, how nature can take this turn. I love God's creation especially water but looking how it was just sweeping away everything, engulfing homes, fields; everything coming it's way. As I was watching, my mind kept telling me He won't do it with water. He promised. Completely shaken up, my mind just searched for promises God has made with His people. Every verse from the Bible I could remember. People around me were just watching on their screens and I was thinking the ground that I am standing on can shake anytime; tremble. I am just mist. I had to speak to God, but the unrest in my heart surrounded me with fear and anxiety. I wanted someone to pray with me but found no one I could go to. My closest prayer partners were miles away.
Still shaken up I opened my Bible and went on Psalm 46 - "So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea."; “Be still, and know that I am God;"  and then He assured me "The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress".
He is with us.
I turned the page and my eyes fell on Psalm 50 :3 "Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages."
I am praying for more wisdom for my preparation for the day to come. Praying more in faith for salvation of my loved ones and for the lost that they may come to know Christ.
I prayed for Japan and this morning as I visited http://www.desiringgod.org/ I totally agreed with Pastor John's prayer for Japan. I prayed and would ask everyone to pray this prayer with all their heart.(if you can't visit the website, I have it for you below).

"Father in heaven, you are the absolute Sovereign over the shaking of the earth, the rising of the sea, and the raging of the waves. We tremble at your power and bow before your unsearchable judgments and inscrutable ways. We cover our faces and kiss your omnipotent hand. We fall helpless to the floor in prayer and feel how fragile the very ground is beneath our knees.
O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in Japan. We too are flesh. We have bodies and homes and cars and family and precious places. We know that if we were treated according to our sins, who could stand? All of it would be gone in a moment. So in this dark hour we turn against our sins, not against you.
And we cry for mercy for Japan. Mercy, Father. Not for what they or we deserve. But mercy.
Have you not encouraged us in this? Have we not heard a hundred times in your Word the riches of your kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not a thousand times withhold your judgments, leading your rebellious world toward repentance? Yes, Lord. For your ways are not our ways, and your thoughts are not our thoughts.
Grant, O God, that the wicked will forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Grant us, your sinful creatures, to return to you, that you may have compassion. For surely you will abundantly pardon. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus, your beloved Son, will be saved.
May every heart-breaking loss—millions upon millions of losses—be healed by the wounded hands of the risen Christ. You are not unacquainted with your creatures' pain. You did not spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all.
In Jesus you tasted loss. In Jesus you shared the overwhelming flood of our sorrows and suffering. In Jesus you are a sympathetic Priest in the midst of our pain.
Deal tenderly now, Father, with this fragile people. Woo them. Win them. Save them.
And may the floods they so much dread make blessings break upon their head.
O let them not judge you with feeble sense, but trust you for your grace. And so behind this providence, soon find a smiling face.
In Jesus’ merciful name, Amen.
In Jesus' name, Amen!

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