THE UPPER ROOM DEVOTIONAL 29TH MARCH 2025, SATURDAY MESSAGE
Read The Upper Room Devotional 29th March 2025 written by Ronda Lehman (Ohio, USA)
TOPIC: Praying With
Today’s Reading
Philippians 4:4-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. – Philippians 4:6 (NRSVUE)
As a hospital administrator, I often pray with patients to offer them comfort and peace. Recently, I encountered an elderly man who is a very familiar face in our community. He was a successful businessman. Before I left his room, I asked if I could pray for him. He smiled, so I proceeded to pray. At the conclusion of my prayer, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “No one has ever prayed for me before.” How can this be? I thought to myself.
Surely someone along his life’s journey had prayed for him from a distance. When we pray to God we often name specific people, but how often do we go to those persons and pray with them? How much more powerful it would have been if someone had stopped for a moment and prayed with this man!
As Christians, we are to be the hands and feet as well as the eyes and ears of Christ. Each of us in our daily prayers can continue to pray for people — and pray with them as well.
Today’s Prayer
Loving God, be with us today as we encourage one another by praying together for your will to be done in our lives. Amen.
Thought for the Day
Prayer has the power to connect me to God and to others.
Prayer Focus
Someone I need to pray with face-to-face
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