However, I have not yet seen elsewhere the idea of applying the "prayer calendar" idea to Paul's exhortation in the Bible in his second letter to Timothy to raise up prayer "for kings and all those in authority." The key idea being how to implement that word, "all." We in America have an extremely complex governmental system. The more that I hear about how dissatisfied Americans are with the workings of Federal, state, county, and municipal executive and judicial and bureaucratic personnel, the more I believe we need to be praying about and for these people if we wish their decisions and actions to be influenced in more godly directions. I have heard many times how prayer needs to be specific to be effective. This is my contribution towards an effective application, but it needs to be used to do that.
The idea of a "prayer calendar" is itself not new. I don't claim for a minute I invented it. It is a concept used by Catholics, evangelicals, even by Islam, There are too many search results to view all of them.
However, I have not yet seen elsewhere the idea of applying the "prayer calendar" idea to Paul's exhortation in the Bible in his second letter to Timothy to raise up prayer "for kings and all those in authority." The key idea being how to implement that word, "all." We in America have an extremely complex governmental system. The more that I hear about how dissatisfied Americans are with the workings of Federal, state, county, and municipal executive and judicial and bureaucratic personnel, the more I believe we need to be praying about and for these people if we wish their decisions and actions to be influenced in more godly directions. I have heard many times how prayer needs to be specific to be effective. This is my contribution towards an effective application, but it needs to be used to do that.
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