Supplication
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and when I look back on the recent riots and the terrible divisiveness in our country, I cannot pray casually – if there is such a thing. My prayers have to be supplications. They’ve got to be travailing and mourning and pleading God to intervene with his mercy. A friend asked me what that kind of praying looks like, and I said, “Well, it’s not a dainty little knock-knocking at heaven’s door.” As Spurgeon puts it, supplication is the energetic, vehement, violent prayer that is not to be denied, but carries heaven by storm until it wins the heart desire of Christ. Because Jesus grieves over violence in the street, his righteous indignation is stirred against contempt for authority; it’s stirred against racism and the pitiless disregard for human life and property.
So, thank you for joining me, not with fingertip petitions that barely touch the burden but put forth shoulder prayers that cry out for national revival.
