Seek ye first the kingdom of yourself and all these things will be added unto you?
Thursday, July 31st, 2003Sometime last week I turned the tv on in the morning. I have the blessing of only having three channels on my tv (blessing because it keeps me from spending hours checked out in front of a mindless box….) Anyway, 100 Huntley Street was on, and once again I was blown away by what they had on. I can’t handle shows like this. It seems so fabricated. They are so filled-with-the-Spirit and they talk so smoothly and perfectly and all this may-the-joy-of-the-Lord-be-with-you stuff just seems so superficial and shallow.
Anyway, what really blew me away this time was the lady they had on for an interview. She was talking about the call to pray through intercession and I thought, “hey cool!” because I have felt that same call numerous times. I thought she would have some great things to say.
But then she went on to talk about how intercessory prayer is her job. Her JOB. She gets paid by a company to pray for them. Paid to ask God to bless business. Give us more money, and what have you. Um, HELLO? What is that??! I may be wrong, but I highly doubt the financial well-being of a company in Calgary is all that high on God’s list of concern. What about all the starving, suffering, dying people around the world? The people hurting and in pain, needing the love of Christ to be manifested to them. I’d venture a guess that they need prayer a lot more than a capitalist corporation. Oh but wait….no one pays to pray for impoverished people. Well in that case, count me out…