It’s easy to pray about your home and family—the little world around you. But God controls EVERYTHING. When the world is suffering, God can fix it.
The burden of leadership weighed heavily on the king of Israel when Samaria was under siege. His people were starving.
“As the king was passing by on the city wall, a woman cried out, ‘My Lord the king, help!’” Then she told her story:
“This woman said ‘Give up your son and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.” When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes” 2 Kings 6:26-30.
This woman just admitted to the murder and cannibalization of HER OWN SON! And what may be worse, she was not afraid to admit these unspeakable crimes to the king. What kind of nation is this man running?
The king could do NOTHING to help. But God was on His throne. During the siege the appetizing head of a donkey sold for fifty dollars and a pint of delicious dove’s dung for three dollars. But then God terrified the Aramean army, causing them to run away so fast they abandoned not only the siege but a mountain of food and supplies. Israel’s economy righted itself IN A SINGLE DAY: suddenly two gallons of flour and four gallons of grain sold for one dollar, 2 Kings 6:25 and 7:16 (TLB).
Leaders face heavy burdens, weight far beyond their power to lift.
The president can no more fix the economy than he can stop a hurricane. But God can do ANYTHING.
There is no burden He cannot lift, no problem He cannot solve. In fact, the global economy is no bigger to Him than a splinter in a child’s finger. Every earthly problem is infinitely small to a God whose power is unlimited.
Watch the news—and PRAY ABOUT IT. Because NOTHING is impossible with God—the economy, wars, elections, COVID—nothing (Luke 1:37).
ΑΩ
Household Words: 