Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Tarl Stanley for Tuesday, September 5th.

So many people are in crisis, but how do you know what to pray for them?

Get clarity on discerning the real needs of people as we learn how to talk with God.

Now all of us have prayed for other people, and all of us have had the experience at times

of praying for other people and expecting something to happen and nothing happened.

And we've asked, well, did I read the Scriptures right, do I understand prayer was God listening

and all the questions that we went through.

But I want to share with you this morning some principles that I feel are very essential

if you and I are going to pray for someone else and pray effectively and see either God

meet their need or change their life or whatever the situation might be.

But I want us to look first of all here at the people that Paul says we ought to pray

for.

He writes the Timothy by saying, I exhort therefore that first of all, supplications, prayers,

intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men.

Now that's not like Lord just bless everybody, but then He gives us a category here and then

I want to expand upon that category so that you and I may see that we do have a definite

responsibility to pray for different types of categories of people.

So He says first of all, in verse two, for kings and for all that are in authority.

And in our day and time that would be for presidents, for dictators, for empress, or whoever

they may be.

And He says that we are to pray in their behalf, He speaks of supplications, prayers, intercessions

and thanksgiving, all of which means to note their needs and to intercede in their behalf,

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