Warfare Wednesday: Real Health Care

"Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. ¹³Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. ¹⁴And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone. ¹⁵Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.

¹⁶Be joyful always; ¹⁷pray continually; ¹⁸give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:18

As I come to the blog this morning to remind all my blessed readers to pray for President Obama and his family, it seems very fitting that I have just come from a discussion about praying for revival. Revival is coming to our country, and it totally fills me with faith and encouragement to hear that it's not just our little group of intercessors praying for revival- there are other groups, just like us, around the country, praying for the exact same thing. We all have the same purpose and the same intentions- to pray for the revival fire to sweep across the nation.

And as I'm thinking about this impending revival, my heart is getting stirred up for it. I want to know what it is like to break through to that point! I want to know what it's like to be worshipping and all the sudden we're there, we're to that point where God says "Don't Stop" and so we keep on going- day after day, we're in a state of praise and worship and adoration corporately. And as we participate, people come from all over, because they hear that God has showed up and they have a physical need to be healed.

*Big Grin*

And that is where my discussion on revival ties right in to praying for President Obama. A person would have to live under a rock to not know that major legislation is being written to give our health care system in this country an overhaul. Whether I am for it or against it is beside the point, because the real question is if we're going to need this health care overhaul. What if, instead of turning to man and our government to provide for us, what if we turned to God instead- the Ultimate Healer and Giver of Life? Think of it! Think of these revival fires breaking out all over the country, and someone gets sick, and instead of going to the hospital for extensive surgeries and care and staying for weeks at a time- a faith in God is stirred up and the person goes to church for an instant and immediate healing! Health Care indeed! That is the real answer to our nations health care problems!

So this week, I am praying for wisdom for President Obama. I am praying for Godly Wisdom, that he makes the right decisions regarding our nations health care. We also need to be praying for the legislators who are writing up the health care bill-even as I write this. May God strike them with the same Godly Wisdom, and create a piece of legislation that makes sense and gives the people of this country some peace about the future of their health. The lawmakers who are putting this bill together are also working long hours into the night- may God give them energy and strength to see their task to completion, without the fatigue that causes poor decisions and choices to be made.

And while we're praying for those legislators to not be fatigued, let's also pray for strength and energy for President Obama. Can you imagine what it must be like to be on the job all the time? I mean, I sort of am as a Mom, I could be awakened at any hour of the night by a child in need, but that is a rare exception, not an everyday occurrence. Imagine being president and being woken up every few hours by some pressing development overseas, or only getting a few hours of sleep, because you have meetings to attend on the other side of the country. It's got to be exhausting to be president, and I just pray that God will bless President Obama with energy and strength, and erase any fatigue that may try to creep in and hinder him from doing his job. He is God's servant to this nation, and may he be blessed for his willingness to be that servant.