Prayers for Australia

This is from a friend who was a God-send to us in France in 2005. I asked her how to pray, forgetting that I had heard about the flooding in Australia and this is her answer. I have been thinking more about prayer, what it means to be persistent and prevailing, and this is a good answer for me! There are so many things we can pray for all day long!


PRAY... for God's mercy
Psalm 29 – to see & acknowledge GOD
For no-one to stay in a state of anger or fear or doing nothing, but to move on, closer to Him and His understanding/working
To open up to be saved,
to be comforted,
to be healed (so much sudden change, shock, hurt and loss of personal belongings, for some the love and lives of dear ones)
For Hope
To have the courage to keep on with life
To have the courage to tackle the mess, and wisdom and knowledge and the means to do it
For volunteers to help and keep helping in ways that are NEEDED: some places need HELP, while in other areas too many volunteers turn up and waste time by just waiting and wanting to help.
To not be discouraged by the fact that some had flood insurance and many others NOT
To us, Christians or not Christian, whose lives were not "disturbed" in the same way by the water, to too make the BEST of this flood – to CHANGE, to live CLOSER to GOD the Almighty.
For Australia to be granted a heart that will search for GOD, to be granted repentance, to ask God that we will let God do His work in our lives, and in the CHURCH!! What a wake-up call for the Church in Australia! To USE this time, His way, for God's Kingdom.
Romans 12:1, 2 in order to know His will, to OBEY Him.
To THANK HIM for ALL the GOOD so far – for the care for each other, for all the grace and mercy, for the humbling experience it was, and continue to be, for the fact that people talk more freely with each other, for the opportunity to change.
For a Spirit of forgiveness.
That we will keep on... In a new way, closer and closer to GOD. And not keep on as if it just/never happened. The media is a leader regarding this – so important to pray for national tv – the national NEWS on TV. Sport is such a pacifier. Maybe good to say "life" (the world?) goes on, but it too steers you AWAY from what is really happening – and not just what happened in our state, but also elsewhere in the country.
THANKS again for God calling us! (But that we will respond to Him – to HONOR HIM, and His Plan(s) with these Calls...)


Best is to ask the Holy Spirit to guide your thoughts and prayers...