I’ll Pray For You……………

Will you really or are just saying that. Don’t get me wrong I know you mean to pray for that person. Yet do we, I would like say that I do every time, but I don’t. Why is that, I suppose it’s because we get busy, forget or just don’t even have much of a prayer life at all.

So how do we fix this, something I like to do is write it down keep a list; then during my prayer time, pull up the list and pray for the people on it. I’m sure God is o.k. with us reading from a list (if not I’m in big trouble). What happens when we forget to write it down we are back at square one. So what do we do……………I GOT IT! Why not instead of saying I’ll pray for you, why not stop and actually pray for them on the spot. When I think about it I’m not sure why I don’t just stop what I’m doing and pray for that person?

“I’ll pray for you” is more than a fell good statement you make. It’s not like bless you after someone’s sneezes. You have made a commitment to take what ever is bothering this person before an amazing, Holy God. Who can do anything and all we have to do is take it before Him.

So think about this way you just told someone thats not a believer you would pray for them, and you don’t pray and they walk away thinking you will. Then what you said you would pray for doesn’t get better. I wonder what that non believer thinks of prayer now. They might just think our glorious God is not as big as we say He is all because we didn’t pray.

Now I know this isn’t every scenario, but the point is saying “I’ll pray for you ” is more than a fell good statement.