Care Prayer


Jer 48:30  I have known, declares Jehovah, his wrath, and it is not so; his lie, they have 

	not done so. 

Jer 48:31  On account of this I will wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, and he 

	shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. 

Jer 48:32  O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you more than the weeping of Jazer. Your 

	plants have crossed the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. A ravager has fallen on 

	your harvest, and on your grape crop. 



	There are times in life when we are cut to the very core of our being and we 

experience an emotion that excludes every other awareness in its intensity. When tragedy 

strikes and it seems like nothing else in the world is of any importance at all, when there 

is a loss that brings a change of priorities to our perspective, when we are moved by the 

depraved condition of a less fortunate soul to commit our very lives to help them, we 

have been touched by a taste of passion. 

	This is not something that can take place amidst the continual flow of other 

menial things in our lives. When this occurs, everything else stops and ceases to require 

our attention while we deal with it. It's similar to the tragedy of 9/11 that captured the 

rapt attention of the world and put several things that had been a normal part of living to a 

halt. In the loss of something for which there is a great deal of care, from a close family 

member, friend or pet to an object that has been very important to us, we are taken to this 

place of emotion where our focus is completely on the situation and our very hearts and 

lives are subject to being transformed by its effect. For anyone who cares about anyone or 
anything there is a vulnerability to this passion and its effect on their lives. 

	In trying to relate to God's response in weeping and crying over the people of 

Moab and Kirheres, there is a place for us to start in the memory of our own passionate 

moments. God was so moved by the condition of those people that He was taken to a 

mournful time of weeping and crying. This great care for people would move God to do 

whatever it might take to bring salvation to them, even to the point of giving His own 

Son. The effect of His passion went beyond the time of mourning to an action that would 

change everything. 

	As we grow nearer to the heart of God in true worship, there is a changing that 

takes place within the very core of our being. The things that He is passionate about 

become things for which we care deeply. We begin to be touched by the things that are of 

importance to Him. There is the possibility for everyone who would know Him to go 

beyond the realm of just passionately wanting to somehow get what has already been 

provided in Christ, and to passionately care about the things that occupy the very heart of 

God in His desire to bring salvation to everyone. In realizing this possibility we can 

obtain a purpose in living that gets its greatest fulfillment in eternal rather than temporal 

things. 

	For there to be the revival that is desired and for there to be a drawing of souls to 

the glory of God, we will need to care for these souls enough that we can allow them to 

be our passionate focus in prayer. There is an interesting side to this, however; the 

acquisition of this passion will not come from the knowledge of the need for it alone. It 

seems that this kind of passion is evidence of having been in the presence of the Master 

and this kind of weeping comes from having touched the very heart of God in worship. 

This is similar to the great acts of David-they cannot be duplicated without His same 

preparation. David did not know all the details of how he would kill the giant. He didn't 

know that he would have to use his mouth to declare the destruction of his foe. He didn't 

know that he would be rejecting the traditional approaches of the king. But, he did know, 

from having been in the presence of His God, that there could be no question as to the 

fact that his God would deliver him as He already had. Instead of being inspired to kill a 

giant from this story, it seems that we should be more inspired to worship and pray. 

Killing a giant is evidence of nothing more than a life of worship and prayer. 

	There is a place for us in the kingdom of bringing salvation to many. Abiding in 

the Father's presence we will arrive in this place and begin to see things from a 

perspective that places the loss of a soul above the loss of anything else in life. We will 

find ourselves in times of prayer when we experience a passion like that of our Father and 

become moved to an effectual fervency. This prayer place is our place of purpose where 

our needed action will be imparted and we will see the effects of our Father's passion as it 

moves through our lives to the lives of others.                                                                            



4/21/04