Seeking Jesus First Dec. 13, 2024

The church, the ‘ekklesia’, has a responsibility to pray and release peace over the city and to be a peaceful influence in the city.

“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:1–4, NKJV)

“Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.” (Jeremiah 29:5–7, NKJV)

1. It is the will of God for us to live in peace.
2. Pray for those who govern.
3. Pray for laws that allow us to lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and reverence.
4. Pray that all would be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
5. Build houses and live in them.
6. Plant gardens and eat the fruit of your labor.
7. Build your family and increase in the land where God has sent you.
8. Seek the peace of the your city and pray for it that you may live in peace.