"Please Pray for Me..."

We were doing Intentional Discipleship Training.

As we sat down to do our own reading, I read about the woman who pleaded with Jesus to cast out a demon from her daughter. Mark 7:29.

It struck me that this woman was not paying lip service when she said that Jesus could heal her daughter. Many people who are desperate would ask for help from all sorts of sources. But we might not mean what we say. We just want the right outcome.

How do I know she was not merely paying lip service when she said so?

Because when Jesus told her that her daughter would be healed, He didn't go with her to her house to see her daughter. He merely said it.

And she left to go home.

To find her daughter healed, just as He said.

Wow.

It struck me. How much do I pay lip service?

Especially when praying for people. When someone is in need and I am asked to pray for him/her. The requests come via emails, via phone calls, via sms-es. It is hard to say anything but Yes I will pray. But DO I?

"Let your yes be a yes, and your no be a no" Matt 5:37