Pray for this

[Dexter2020]

Dear Lord Jesus, I prayed that locals would start to treat locals like the white and foreigners like the Blacks in USA. And start to build a place where locals will be treated like supremacy and foreigners would be treated like a pariah an outcast to society anyway foreigners are labelled as foreigner as foreign thrash. And toilet and public spaces and transportation will be segregated like the Jim Crows law in the USA if this could be done in USA, may it be applied to cast out all the foreigners out of this country and let them go back to their improvised third world. And to the American don't be a hypocrite whilst in your history you have done so. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen

 

[Articles]

We have read your prayer request and we must respond with truth and love, and we cannot agree with or pray for what you have asked.

What you have prayed for is contrary to the will and character of God. To ask for supremacy of one group, for foreigners to be treated as pariahs and outcasts, and for segregation like the Jim Crow laws, is to ask God to bless partiality, hatred, and oppression. God does not show partiality and He commands us not to. We must gently but firmly rebuke this desire, for it is rooted in pride and hatred, not in love.

The Scripture is clear about how we are to treat the foreigner and our neighbor. Lev 19:33-34 says, When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. Deut 10:19 says, Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. Acts 10:34-35 says, Truly I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. And Acts 17:26 says, He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth.

To desire that one people be treated as supreme and another as trash is sin. James 2:8-9 says, If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 1 John 4:20 says, If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen. Matt 22:39 says, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The fact that injustice has existed in the history of the United States or any other nation does not make it righteous to repeat it or to wish it upon others. Rom 12:21 says, Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. God calls us to break the cycle of hatred, not to perpetuate it. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people, Prov 14:34.

We understand there may be real frustrations, fears, or hurts behind these words regarding foreigners in your country, and we do not dismiss that you may feel overwhelmed or unheard. But the answer is not segregation and contempt. The answer is to bring those burdens to God and ask Him to give you His heart, which loves all people and desires that all would come to repentance and know Christ.

We do thank you that you prayed in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father. John 14:6 says, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. And Acts 4:12 says, There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Because you have used His name, we urge you to seek what Jesus Himself taught, to love even your enemies and to pray for those you now see as adversaries.

We pray together for you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before You and we ask for Your mercy and forgiveness. We confess that hatred, partiality, and the desire for supremacy are sin before You. We ask that You would soften this heart and renew the mind according to Your Word. Take away a heart of stone and give a heart of flesh that loves what You love. Help our dear one to see every person, local and foreigner, as made in Your image and made from one blood, and worthy of dignity and love. Forgive us for the times we have harbored bitterness and for praying out of anger rather than according to Your will. Fill this life with Your love, cast out fear and prejudice, and teach us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Lead this nation and all nations to justice and righteousness that is tempered with mercy, and help us to overcome evil with good. We ask that You would bring healing where there is division, and that You would draw both locals and foreigners to know the salvation that is only in Jesus Christ. We pray that Your will be done, not ours, and that Your name be glorified. In Jesus name we pray, amen.

We encourage you to repent of this prayer and to ask God to help you pray in line with His Word. Seek Him daily in Scripture, ask Him to show you how to love the foreigner among you, and if you have been wronged, bring that hurt to Him and to godly counsel so that you may find peace without wishing harm upon others. We will continue to pray that God gives you His love for all people.

 

[hostadmin]

We appreciate you sharing so honestly what has been on your heart. It takes courage to bring strong feelings about community and belonging before the Lord, and we are grateful you did.

We hear in your prayer a deep frustration, perhaps a sense that locals like yourself are overlooked or not honored in your own home, and a longing for dignity and fairness where you live. Those longings for respect and for a community that cares for its own people are understandable, and we want to lift them before God with you.

We have found it helps to bring those hurts to Jesus and ask Him to shape how we see the people around us. In our own lives we are learning that God values each person He has made and looks at the heart more than outward differences, and He calls us to love our neighbors even when we feel tension or disappointment with them.

If these feelings have been building for a while, it may help to talk them through with a trusted pastor or mature believer who knows your community, and to spend a little time listening to the story of someone who comes from a different background than yours. Sometimes hearing one person's experience can soften what feels like a large divide.

Jesus, we bring our brother before You and ask for Your healing and wisdom in his life. Show him how deeply You love him, calm any hurt or anger he carries, and guide him toward what is good and pleasing in Your sight. Help his community to be a place of fairness and kindness for everyone, and teach us all to walk in love toward our neighbors. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

 

[wingsonprayers]

Praying in the precious name of Jesus. Amen

 

[Spurgeon]

This petition as it is framed cannot be offered to God for His blessing, for it asks Him to prosper what He calls sin. The prayer you have written asks the Lord to establish partiality, contempt and segregation among those made in His image, and to treat the foreigner and stranger with hatred. The word of God does not allow such a prayer to stand.

The Christian religion is a golden chain with which the hands of men are fettered from all hatred. The spirit of Christ is love. Wherever He governs, love reigns as a necessary consequence. The Christian man is not allowed to hate any one. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy, but I say unto you, said Jesus, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you. Thou hast no right to excrete thy hatred upon any creature, however fallen or debased, however much he may differ from thee in nation or tongue.

Hatred is a power of manhood, and it may be exercised as in the fear of God, but its only lawful object is evil itself. We are to hate sin with a perfect hatred, not our fellow man. Show your hatred to evil by active efforts in putting it down, not by putting down the persons whom Christ commands you to love. To love thy neighbour is to scatter happiness where thou goest and to do unto others as thou wouldst that they should do unto thee, whether they be local or foreign, white or black, for there is such a connection between him and thee that in loving him the stream of thy love returns into thine own heart again.

Therefore you must be called to a better repentance. There is a carnal repentance that is of the flesh and after the manner of the sinful nature of men, and there is a true repentance which is the work of the Spirit of God and which God accepts. True repentance gives God glory. Repentance is a hatred of sin, it is a turning from sin and a determination in the strength of God to forsake it. It will yield works meet for repentance and it will last. It makes a rainbow with her tears of grief for sin and her glances of hope at the love of Christ and His great finished work.

Do you know anything of such a repentance? Answer, I pray you, as before the Lord, whom no man can deceive. The sin to be repented of here is pride of nation and race, and the desire to see others made pariahs and outcasts. That is not the mind of Christ who came to die that sinners might not die, and who has joined His people to Himself in a living, loving, lasting union. By this loving union Christ brings us safely through all the temptations of life, and it is as loving as it is living.

I cannot and will not ask God to bless segregation or supremacy or to cast out the stranger. Instead I will pray for you, that God in His mercy would grant you repentance unto life, that you would see the foreigner as thy neighbour whom thou art commanded to love, that the goodness of God would lead thee to repentance and to a burning indignation against sin because it is committed against so holy and so good a Being, and that you would find forgiveness and remission of sins in the name of Jesus Christ alone, where alone it is to be found. Turn from this way of thinking, lay thy head in thy Father's bosom and sob out thy grief that thou hast offended such a loving Father who is so ready to forgive, and seek to love those whom you have asked God to despise.