los primeros meses orabas casi a diario por él. después de un año lo mencionabas esporádicamente en tus oraciones y tiempo después cuando pensabas en él sentías una gran tristeza en tu corazón al verlo alejado totalmente de los caminos del Señor y pensabas que tal vez nunca regresaría al Señor. Era tu amigo, lo saludabas en las calles, pero sabías que su interes por el Señor era sólo un añejo recuerdo en su mente. Tu te acostumbraste a su ausencia en la iglesia.
Eso me pasó hace poco a mi. dejé de orar por alguien porque había perdido la fe en que regresaría, ya me había hecho a la idea de que Kervin era parte de las estadísticas de pérdidas en la iglesia, pero gracias a Dios me equivoqué. Nuestras oraciones realmente mueven la mano de Dios, pero cuando no oramos; la mano de Dios se sigue moviendo a su voluntad. Gracias a Dios la salvación de Kervin no dependía de mis escualidas oraciones sino de la misericordia y la voluntad de nuestro soberano Dios. El día que Kervin vino a mi casa para contarme que había recivido a Cristo como su Salvador, tuve que confesarle con mucha verguenza que había dejado de orar por él.
Si has dejado de orar por alguien, si has perdido las esperanzas por ese amigo o familiar; es tiempo de retomar las armas y perseverar. El Señor anhela ser glorificado a través de las oraciones contestadas. Anímatey ora !!ahora mismo!!
Has there ever been anyone in your church who was really excited about the things of the Lord and then all of the sudden quit coming to church and finally quit being interested in God? What did you do for them? Probably the same thing I did, encourage them to come back to church and when that didn't work, the only thing you could do for them is pray. During the first months, you prayed just about every day for them. After a year, you prayed for them every now and again and then later, when you thought of this person, you felt a deep sadness in your heart to see them so far from the Lord and started to think that maybe they would never return to Him. They were your friend. You said hi to them when you saw them in the street, but you knew that their interest in the Lord was only an old memory in their mind. You got used to them not coming to church.This happened to me a few days ago. I stopped praying for someone because I had lost faith that they would return. I thought that Kervin was another statistic of a Christian who fell away, but thank God I was mistaken. Our prayers really move the hand of God but when we don't pray, God's hand just keeps moving the way it was going. Thanks be to God that Kervin's salvation no depended on my weak prayers but on the mercy and the will of our sovereign God. The day that Kervin came to my house to tell me that he had received Christ as his Savior, I had to confess to him with a lot of embarassment that I had stopped praying for him.If you have stopped praying for someone. If you have lost hope for that friend of family member, it is time to go back and persevere. The Lord wants to glorify Himself through answered prayers. Be encouraged and pray for that person right now!!
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