A Moving Prayer

Prayer Journey cont’d:

David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel. (2 Samuel 24).

David sinned by disobeying God, and God sent a pestilence to the land, and many people died.  I can’t imagine knowing that because of my mistake, many other people died. I’m not even sure I could live with that knowledge.

However, David repented, acknowledged that it was he who had sinned and not the people, and he prayed.

God responds to godly repentance, true sorrow for wrongs, and compassion for others.

Because David realized his sin and obeyed a command to build an altar to the Lord, and then prayed for the people who were being affected by David’s sin, the verse above says,

…”the Lord was moved…”

And furthermore, “…the plague was held back from Israel.”

We’ve all sinned.  And our sins do affect others around us, especially those close to us.  Because of Jesus, we have the invitation to repent, be forgiven, and move the hand of God when we pray for forgiveness and for those we’ve hurt.

Today…pray and repent over any sin…and ask God to bless those you’ve hurt.