I wanted to share a quick teaching from my study this morning. Gretchen and I pray for protection for our family every day. We really do.
My study this morning brought home the importance of this in the story of Lot in Genesis 19.
Remember that Lot was living in Sodom. Yahweh was going to destroy that city and the surrounding cities as well. But Yahweh decided to save Lot and his wife and 2 daughters.
v29 But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
And from the study itself:
Then we find out exactly why God saved Lot: in V29, we’re told it was because Abraham had asked him to. It was because the righteous Abraham had pled for the life of Lot. Something we parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters need to keep in mind. The prayers of a righteous person, and if you’re saved you’re righteous before God, can lead to saving the unsaved, or even rescuing the saved but weak. I have no doubt that my father’s prayers are all that stood between me and the oblivion I deserved and was moving rapidly towards, many years ago. Perhaps the only thing that can deliver, or even sustain the life of our children or grandchildren, is our prayers. And, I have no doubt that Lot was oblivious that it was Abraham who had interceded for him and kept him from destruction.
So in your prayer time. Remember to ask.
