-August 12, 2023-
Good morning, happy Saturday,
“Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.”
(Romans 10:1).
All of us have people we are praying for to be saved. We all have family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow students that we are burdened for and are praying for. They are on our hearts and in our thoughts. We love them and want them to be saved and with us in heaven.
Paul wrote. “…my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.” Paul loved his fellow Israelites and wanted them to be saved. The Jews were the major persecutors of the church and especially of Paul himself. This didn’t lesson Paul’s burden and love for them, but increased it. We know Paul’s love and burden he had. By reading Paul’s epistles we see how he prayed for so many people. He had a very long prayer list for the unsaved and the saved. He wrote, “that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh” (Romans 9:2-3).
The word burden is defined as, “something that is carried, load; duty, responsibility.” We often hear someone say, “I am burdened for you.” Bearing each other up in prayer is so important. Paul was so burdened for his fellow Jews that he could wish he be accursed and they be saved. That’s a heavy burden and a deep love.
Have a blessed day praying for those we love that don’t know the Lord. Stay safe and healthy.
The Lord desires them to be saved even more than we do,
Dean
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