The text that Rudy, Bruce, and I covered today on YouTube involves the descendants of Shem. The primary emphasis is on the descendants of Terah, who is the father of Abram.
As always, Rudy, our Hebrew scholar, has an excellent treatment of Genesis 11:10-31 on today’s YouTube video. I encourage you to listen, which most of the people who read my blog already do.
Today’s blog post will focus on a prayer proposal Frank Laubach shared during the darkest days of World War II and the Cold War.
Frank Laubach, who held a PhD from a prestigious East Coast university, served as a missionary in the Philippines. During a period of disappointment, loneliness, and depression, he began taking walks up a mountain with his small dog.
As he walked and prayed, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening. The formative moments of walking up Signal Hill and talking to the Lord ended up making him the unique man that he was.
He was used to share the gospel with some of the fiercest Muslim tribes in the Philippines during the early years of the 1900s.
Later on, God used him to convince Mahatma Gandhi to allow literacy to come to India. He later took the same program to South America.
Lauback prayed about everything. He didn’t bow his head and close his eyes; he simply flashed what he called “arrow prayers” to God. That’s what I want to write about in my blog article today: arrow prayers to God.
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During the darkest days of World War II, Laubach wrote a small book in which he encouraged his readers to begin flashing short arrow prayers to God whenever they encountered a news story or thought about the tragedies of World War II.
We are living in turbulent times.
Wars seem to be taking place all around the world. The nightly news is filled with stories of conflicts. Then there are raging wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, you name it.
The world is a troubled place in 2024-25.
We don’t have to tell God all the problems that are taking place in the world. One of the things we can do every time we’re troubled by a news story, or some traumatic event gets our attention, is simply to flash a prayer to Him.
The way I pray it is, God have mercy. God have mercy. God have mercy.
What if we begin looking at the world through the eyes of prayer, like Laubach did? What if we simply ask God, however the Spirit leads us, to have mercy on the things that we see, either in the news, in our families, or in our communities?
Would you join me in this prayer practice? Whenever you’re impacted by news or life events, would you offer a quick prayer asking for God’s involvement? I hope you will.
If this resonates with you, please share the idea in your own words on social media or with friends. Let’s see how many people we can gather to pray for God’s work in the world by offering these brief, focused prayers.
YouTube Discussion
Rudy Ross, Bruce Kirby, and I discuss the genealogy that highlights the birth of Abram in Genesis 11 today.
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