Learning to Pray for Others

Here’s the poem/prayer from Mary Warburton Booth that I shared this past weekend at Community.

Oh! For a heart that is burdened. Infused with a passion to pray.

Oh! For a stirring with me, Oh! For His power every day.

Oh! For a heart like my Savior, who being in agony, prayed.

Such caring for others, Lord give me. On my heart let burdens be laid.

Father, I long for this passion, to pour myself out for the lost—

To lay down my life to save others—to pray, whatever the cost.

Lord, teach me, oh teach me this secret, I’m hungry this lesson to learn,

This passionate passion for others, for this, blessed Jesus, I yearn.

Father, this lesson I long for from Thee—Oh, let They Spirit reveal this to me.

“I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power.” (Ephesians 3:17 NIV)