Meditation

Good morning Reader,

A pastor's first job is to lead a praying people. So, Paul puts prayer first in his instructions for the church, ahead of everything else.

In today's verses, he names four kinds: asking, talking with God, pleading for others, and giving thanks. Surprisingly, even the people who make life difficult belong on that thank-you list, since God works through all of them.

Prayer for kings and everyone in authority meant praying for the emperors who persecuted Christians. Their refusal to acknowledge emperors as all-powerful led to charges of disloyalty, which Christians answered with a generous reply: we pray for the emperor; we don't pray to him.

God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, so the gospel must be offered to everyone. Prayer for rulers and laborers alike is a principal means to that end.

Which begs a question of us all: Who should be on our list today if it had to include the person we least expect?

Today's verses are 1 Timothy 2:1-7

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I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: ²for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. ³For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

⁴who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. ⁵For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times; ⁷to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Encouragement

¹⁶Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16

Andy

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