Words in the Dark III: Part 8 – Petition and Deliverance

As we near the end of our prayer series, we come now to prayers for needs. Jesus’s prayer leads us from adoration to Kingdom praying, and then into our basic physical, emotional, and community requests. David’s Psalms give us these kinds of prayers: “May God arise”, and “God sets the lonely in families”, and “praise God who daily bears our burdens.” Check out Psalm 68 and its invitation for us to order our thoughts around specific needs, our needs, other people’s needs, and the nourishing presence of Christ, our daily bread of life.