{"id":5735,"date":"2015-11-14T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2015-11-15T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:22:18","slug":"praying-for-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/praying-for-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday,\u00c2\u00a0France was brutalized<\/a> by Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n

This is a time for praying against what God is against, and for what God is for. God is against murder, and he is against the false gods that demand the slaughter of the innocent. He is for the putting down of injustice, and he is for the knowledge of his glory filling the earth, even through the salvation of former worshipers of Allah.<\/p>\n

There are many things to pray on a weekend like this. Denny Burke recommends<\/a> we pray the words of Psalm 10, and that’s a good suggestion:<\/p>\n

Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
\nDo not forget the helpless.
\nWhy does the wicked man revile God?
\nWhy does he say to himself,
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t call me to account\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?
\nBut you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
\nyou consider their grief and take it in hand.
\nThe victims commit themselves to you;
\nyou are the helper of the fatherless.
\nBreak the arm of the wicked man;
\ncall the evildoer to account for his wickedness
\nthat would not otherwise be found out.<\/p>\n

The Lord is King for ever and ever;
\nthe nations will perish from his land.
\nYou, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;
\nyou encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
\ndefending the fatherless and the oppressed,
\nso that mere earthly mortals
\nwill never again strike terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are some helpful reflections, suggestions, and articles from around the web on this and related tragedies.<\/p>\n