Pray for Your Community

By Andrew Williams – July 28,2021

“Seek the welfare of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it has prosperity, you will prosper.” Jeremiah 29:7 HCSB

Good morning fellow disciples.

The Jews have been exiled to Babylon and other places. They are wondering how they should live their lives in foreign countries. They are longing to return to Judah and to the home of the house of the Lord their God. However they will be living in exile for a long time, 70 years as prophesied by Jeremiah. This is what God says through Jeremiah the prophet to the people who are in exile.

Seek the welfare of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it has prosperity, you will prosper.” Jeremiah 29:7 HCSB. We all know the phrase, ‘home is where the heart is’. The people’s hearts were in Jerusalem, but God is telling them that where you are now that’s where you should place your effort. Pray for the community that you live in, seek the welfare of the community that you live in, because if you do that when they are prosperous you will prosper.

Sometimes as humans we tend to want to send everything back to where we call home, at the expense of where we currently live and work. Let us change our mindset from one of self centeredness to that of community centeredness. Let us seek the welfare of the community that we live in so that they will prosper. When they prosper we will also prosper. From a kingdom point of view this means that we should seek the welfare of our church community and the community that our churches are in.

Prayer: Father God, I come to You on behalf of my community, I ask You to prosper it and all the persons within it Lord. I pray for their salvation, healing, deliverance and for us all to live in harmony surrendered to You. This I ask, in Jesus’ name, amen.