Here are three practical suggestions of how to pray for ISIS: 1. If you want to pray that they would all perish, instead try praying for justice. Its so easy to wish that every militant would be killed, leaving the Iraqi people free to rebuild their lives. But rather than pray for their deaths, perhaps instead ask for Gods will and justice to be done, trusting that his understanding is greater than ours. 2. If your instinct is to pray for military success, pray instead for peace. Pope Francis himself has suggested that military action against IS could be justified, but rather than focusing our prayer on further violence, petition instead for peace, reconciliation and stability. 3. Rather than only praying for Christians to be saved, pray also that members of IS would turn to God. How incredible it would be for radical Muslims to see the witness of the Iraqi Church, the testimony of persecuted Christians and encounter the living person of Jesus. Nothing is impossible.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:31:24 +0000
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