PRAYER FOR ELDERLY

We recently prayed for the elderly in relation to their holistic needs, This time we are not limiting our focus on the elders in relation to age, but to their position of responsibility.

This morning we shall be praying for grace for them to live up to their responsibility in-line to the Will of God.

James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

1 Peter 5:1-4

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.   

When a teenager defiantly says “No!” to his parent, the result will be discipline. But when that teen’s two-year-old sister says “No!” the consequences will be different. Instead of discipline, the two-year-old will receive patient correction and instruction; she will be taught to learn respect for her parents—something a teenager should already know. In other words, there is a difference in accountability between a child and an Elderly Person.

In the same way, God judges a child differently than He judges an adult—or anyone who has reached an age of accountability, knowing right from wrong

According to the 1 John 5:14-15New International Version (NIV)

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

PRAYERS

(Psalm 71)

·      Let pray for our elderly for grace to trust God and hold on to His word whatever comes their way knowing surely that our Redeemer Lives.