Prayer For Today Friday 1st March 2024 – A Prayer For Radical Change

DAILY PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY.

Prayer points and Bible References for today. Remember, prayer is an act of  worship & submission to God. It is a way you ask God to step in, take charge and continue to lead you on the right path. As you worship the Almighty God using this daily prayer point, believe in your heart that your victories for today are already established and no power or principalities can stop you in Jesus precious name, Amen

Today’s prayer focus: A Prayer for Radical Change

“And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized..” – Acts 9:18

Watching someone you love live their life apart from Jesus is excruciating. You want to be the one to save them, even though you know that’s not how salvation goes. I write this as the one who wasn’t living for Jesus and caused excruciating pain to those who loved me.

When someone asks if there is a story in the Bible that I feel most reflects my conversion, I always answer with Paul on the road to Damascus. While I wasn’t persecuting Christians, my life was out of control. Off the rails is the best way to put it. I was quite literally running from God.

I had scales on my eyes, walls built up in my heart, and the false belief that I could do life fine on my own. This left me exactly the way you’re imagining. Hurt, broken, lonely, sad, and looking for something or someone to fill me. Sadly, I kept looking everywhere and everyone except Jesus.

By God’s grace, He met me in many miraculous ways. Some big and some small. He pursued, and pursued, and pursued. He never stopped coming after my heart even though I was running from Him. One night on my college campus, I was met by two officers citing me for breaking the law. Life was over, I thought; however, life was actually just beginning. Those two officers were the first glimmer of grace in my life, as odd as it sounds. This moment shook me up and got my attention. It revealed to my stubborn spirit that I didn’t have life all figured out but that life was quite literally falling apart.

Two weeks later, I had to appear in court for my minor misdemeanor, though it felt anything but minor to me. My dad attended the hearing with me, and another miracle took place, a man showed up to stand on my behalf. This was not an attorney either of us had called; however, he stated a friend of my dad’s had asked if he was in the area to stop by. You’re probably thinking the same thing I am as I tell this story again, “What in the world!”. A man came and stood on my behalf, this man showed me the picture of what Jesus is in the life of those who love Him.

This encounter changed my life; two months later, I surrendered my life to Jesus. Just like Paul, Jesus met me on a messy, broken, hard road. And yet He chose to radically change my life. It says in the scripture that once Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit, “..immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized..” Acts 9:18

Immediate, radical, instant change. This is the work of our Heavenly Father, and He still does this today!

PRAYER FOR TODAY 1ST MARCH 2024.

Let’s pray:

Lord, we praise you for still working in radical, instantaneous ways. You are faithful to pursue hearts even when they are running from you. Lord, give me the strength to love the people well in my life who are running from you.

Help me point them back to you in a way to shows them your heart. In Jesus’ name, amen.

This Is the Assurance of Answers to Your Prayers – Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!