A burden of prayer

What tears you up inside? When you see something and it causes you to get a little angry and it breaks your heart you have a burden for that situation. Maybe when you see a fatherless child struggle to find self worth and identity it breaks you. Maybe is a sick person, or a poor person. Whatever it is we all have burdens that God has placed on our hearts so that we will help those in need.

Matthew 11:30 promises that the burdens God gives us are easy and light. Even though something tears us up inside we are not crushed by it. That is how we know it is a Godly burden and not something placed there by man.

We ought to have a burden for our generation, for those who have no faith, for vision, revival, the broken, the poor, the hurting and our city. Jesus had a burden for all of these people/things and more. We need a burden for these to pray for them to be fulfilled.

A burden of prayer is what it will take to see God move in our city. When His people pray, He listens and God is quick to answer. All throughout the psalms we find the word prayer and cry used together. Each of the psalmists cried out to God for Him to do the impossible in their lives. It was a burden of prayer.

We too need a cry, burden for our generation. 2 Chronicles 7:14 tells us that if we will humble ourselves and pray, God will hears us and restore our land! We are in need of restoration and salvation in our land and it will only come through the burden of prayer.

Go to God and ask Him for a burden to pray for the above things and when you receive it be faithful to cry out to Him. He will do the impossible through your prayers!

Prayer: God give me a burden to pray for vision, my generation, and revival.