Who Prays For You?

Choose your close friends wisely 🙂

We live in difficult and sometimes confusing times. We all face pressure. Pressure to provide. Pressure to protect those we love from covid. Pressure to deal with the political chaos that effects us all. But perhaps the most dangerous pressure we face , is the pressure to turn our backs on God. And it is this pressure that we must triumph over most of all.

There are many ways in which we can do this, not the least of which is asking our Lord to Help us 🙂

But there are two things we can do as well. We can pray like other people breathe and we can choose our close friends wisely.

Asking a number of very wise people how they choose their close friends, the best answer was a question, “Who do you ask to pray for you?”. I had to think about that for a while. There is a small group of people that I go to when I am truly in need of help. And I ask them to pray for me 🙂

Why them? Because I know them well and they know me. And I know they pray often and know God well. I trust them. And I know if I am making any mistakes, they will tell me. For we can have the very best of intentions and yet still make mistakes 🙂

It is this same group I go to when I am unsure of a Bible verse’s meaning or a choice I must make, for I know they will lead me on a Godly path.

Another great answer I received was also a question, “Do they pull you down more than you pull them up? When choosing close friends, that is an important question.

It’s important to reach out to those who do not yet know Jesus, but it is also important to stay on the path ourselves!

So Pray like others breathe and choose your close friends wisely 🙂