As I prayed this morning my spirit was crying out to the Lord for so many things as it relates the Ferguson incident. What is evident here is that this goes beyond one city or person, this has been a deep seated issue that continues to be an ongoing struggle for freedom and justice in this nation. It is important for us to pray not just for this street, city, state or incident but for a people who feels hurt, pushed over, under-appreciated, targeted and unjustly treated. This does not describe, the magnitude of the situation that this nation is dealing with.
My call today is that while we pray for peace, pray also for justice. Pray for a move of God that is unprecedented in this nation against this spirit of hate and destruction. We are seeing the symptoms of an undermining problem. The focus is not to only alleviate the manifestation of the symptoms, but find the root cause of the problem and deal with it.
As we prepare to pray, our emotions might be all over the place, but ask the Holy Spirit to take over. Ask him to pray through you. When the people of God unite and pray, pray, pray our God hears the cry of the righteous and answers. As you pray bear the following things in mind.
We have heard several times the battle is not ours, it belongs to the Lord. Therefore, we do not need to take justice into our own hands when we have the God of justice on our side.
According to (Isaiah 61:8) “For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them.”
Job 34:12 “Surely, God will not act wickedly, And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
As you listen to the News and read the news feeds and comments, hate, confusion, destruction, anger and all the negatives seem to be in the forefront of the minds of many protestors, but I urge you not to join the sides of hate, join forces with the Holy Spirit and deal with the spirits at work. Do not allow the spirit of strife to take over. The scripture says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal or weapons of the world, but they are might through God to the pulling down of strongholds. However, this weapon has tremendous power to destroy strongholds (2 Cor 10:4).
– Pray for the justice of God to manifest in the judicial system, corporate America, and every other broken system in the nation.
– Speak healing over hurting, angry, and suffering people.
– Pull down those walls of prejudice and racial profiling,
– Pray for local government, senate and the house of representatives to begin to engage in talks and legislation, that will bring about some long awaited changes.
– Pray for those who are using this situation as an opportunity to advance their sinister plan.
A believer can accomplish so much on his knees than with his carnal abilities, if he understands the power of his prayer and the power of the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous. The righteous man has tremendous power available to him, but he must be able to harness it. Don’t allow the enemy to make you feel powerless, not when you have the power of God available to you.