Jeremiah 37
PRAY FOR US

One of the best requests King Zedekiah made of Jeremiah was when he asked, “Please pray to the Lord our God for us.” (Jeremiah 37 v 3).

Zedekiah’s request is one I don’t hear very often from the people around me. How often do people ask us to pray for them? Or how often do we ask other people to pray for us? Even Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane asked his disciples to pray, while he specifically prayed for Peter, for the rest of his disciples and for us.

In his request that Jeremiah pray, there was one thing missing from Zedekiah’s life. He was unwilling to build his own relationship with God. He possibly wasn’t even praying.

Let’s be people of prayer. Let’s pray for other people. Let’s ask other people to pray for us. And at the same time, let’s make sure we are building a relationship with the God who will answer those prayers. Let us seek him, love him, and obey him with all our heart.

May our prayers rise like incense before God this weekend.

With love in our Lord,
Robert
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