prayer - day 20

how great is our God
sing with me how great is our God
and all will see how great, how great is our God.

LORD
all will see how great you are and that you are worthy of our praise.
our lives are in your hands and no one can snatch us from you.
even death has no sting as we will spend eternity with you, the Creator of all life and all wonder.

That you should care for us is amazing because we are so imperfect, so terribly flawed and yet we are precious to you. So precious you sent your son to die for us. His sole purpose was to do your will and fulfil your eternal plans. Thank you LORD for loving us like no other.

The love i feel for my son is nothing compared to the love you have for him.
You are love LORD. Not the soppy self-centred kind of love that this world knows. We have only a small understanding of real love.

Not in all my life would i sacrifice my one and only child for a world that does not know you, does not want to know you, even hate you. But that's what you did. When Jesus was born you knew one day he would suffer and die a horrific death. He died for the Apostle Paul who hated him and persecuted other believers with zeal. But you still saved him. Chose him to spread your word throughout the Roman Empire. To gentiles so that many would believe.

Millions have been saved over the many many generations including me. A girl from a tiny little Pacific Island, through her parents, and them through their parents. The power of your love, LORD!

And today your work is still being done, your plans still being fulfilled. Because 1,000 years is like a day to you. So maybe 40 days of your time this world will end and the final chapter fulfilled. Who knows.

All i know is that we must equip the next generation to love more than the last, to serve more than the last because your plans are eternal and until that final day, we your body must continue to leave your legacy of love. So the world will know you sent Jesus, their Saviour to bring them home.

This next generation in Uganda needs you LORD. They need supernatural help to overcome the principalities taking hold of their country. LORD, work your wonder, save your people, fill them with your unfailing everlasting love, give them a heart to serve, and fill them with passion to fulfil your will and do your work.

Show them their future in you LORD. Forgive them their sins, have mercy on your children and heal their land. As far as the east is from the west so far will you remove their sins from them. Your mercy is new every morning to them. They are new creations in Christ, the old has gone and the new has come. They will know what it means to be children of the most High God. They will know such love that they will forget the awful past and look forward to their future.

Thank you LORD that these things are being fulfilled right now in the lives of these children. That all things are possible with you. Jesus, in your saving name i pray amene