Today,
reply is on whether during the present covid-19 health crisis
Christians should pray for the world or only for themselves. There
are no layoffs or shut-down of ministry among believers; the sacred
work of praise, fulfilling the promises of GOD, and manifesting
prophecy (comfort, edification, exhortation) will continue.
Ordinarily, to avoid meddling and spiritual confusion, many believers
pray only for family, friends, coworkers, and persons they know
through direct relationships. However, for mature Christian
believers, earnest and fervent prayer are to be offered continually.
This is so even where prayer is understood as intimate and personal
communication with divinity that allows one to confess and share
their darkest and deepest feelings as well as their most private
thoughts. In the same way the operations of sin are impartial,
irrational, and attack all that exists indiscriminately, epidemic
disease and sickness that obey mechanical process and natural law
also dismiss many sacred distinctions, and violate consecrated
boundaries. Even in times like these when their gathering in public
may be cut off, Christian believers are to behave as those in ongoing
judgment; and all are commanded to be faithful, sober, steadfast,
unwavering, and vigilant. Their duty to serve and share with others
is not lessened. It is written: Ezekiel 34: 15-26, King James
Version (KJV): 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie
down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I will seek that
which was lost, and bring again that
which was driven away, and
will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that
which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will
feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between
cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. 18 Seemeth
it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but
ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and
to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with
your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye
have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled
with your feet. 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD
unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat
cattle and between the lean cattle. 21 Because ye have thrust with
side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns,
till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore will I save my
flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between
cattle and cattle. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and
he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them,
and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD
will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the
LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make
with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to
cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the
places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to
come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. A
fighter in the public forum on Religion & Spirituality at “Yahoo!
Answers” who used the ID “REAL” (Level 2 with 815 points)
posted the following:
Do
anybody anywhere in the world pray ti his/her God to save the world
from this pandemic or pray for themselves only?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: But this I say, brethren, the time is short:
it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had
none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that
rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though
they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it:
for the fashion of this world passeth away. (1st
Corinthians 7: 29-31, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Challenge of Covid-19 (03/22/2020); Leadership By
The Church (03/18/2020); Believers Minister Through Prayer
(09/23/2019); Fasting, Prayer and Sanctification (03/29/2019);
Christian “Thoughts and Prayers” (03/01/2018); What to Do About
Liars? (11/14/2014); Refraining Our Tongues? (11/15/2014)
“REAL”,
there are unchanging aspects of eternal purpose that are to be
fulfilled and performed by Creation that will not to be interrupted
or suspended in response to conditions and events on the earth.
Where divinity establishes evil (i.e., calamity; catastrophe;
disaster; upheaval) it is for the further outworking of divine
prerogative, sacred law, prophecy, and revelation. While a
separation to identify and sanctify authentic authority
must be continued, the divine example for men on the earth
declares there also must be a
manifesting of humility and unselfish service to others that includes
intercessory praise and prayer specially
on behalf of those who may be recognized as sinners in repentance.
The primary focus for the church is to be salvation for those who are
committed as members within the body. Thus, consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Hezekiah Walker:
(1.)
Jeremiah 29: 4-7, King James Version (KJV): 4 Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives,
whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 5
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters;
and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands,
that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased
there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither
I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD
for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
(2.)
Isaiah 45: 6-8, KJV: 6 That they may know from the rising of the
sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am
the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I
form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop
down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth
salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD
have created it.
(3.)
Romans 8: 26-27, KJV: 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for
the saints according to the will of God.
(4.)
John 17: 9-17, KJV: 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world,
but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And
all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and
I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom
thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While
I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that
thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of
perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I
to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and
the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as
I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them
out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
(5.)
Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are
not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (6.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcJL_UDAvw.
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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