Praying While Driving

[DocTrinsoGrace]

I just finished a 2,500 mile trip. Something I regularly do is to pray for each and every church that I pass on such trips. If God in His providence has me passing a church, then surely it is important to pray for that congregation.

The next time you pass a church, if this practice comes to mind, lift them up before the throne. I certainly hope that others are praying for the brothers and sisters as they pass our church.

 

[SaggyWoman]

I often do this in a lot of different circumstances.

 

[ktn4eg]

I often do this for different neighborhoods as well.

Don't know about your area, but often times I'll be driving around different parts of my area in which I'll find homes on one side of the road that are very modest-looking, while on the other side of the road one will see $1 million + dwelling places.

I pray raying: for both sides of the road because ALL people--rich or poor--need Jesus.

 

[SolaSaint]

Thanks for sharing that, I had never considered it. What a wonderful thing to do. What do you pray when you pass by a Kingdom Hall or LDS church?

 

[DocTrinsoGrace]

Seizing Every Moment for Prayer by Cotton Mather

Thanks for sharing that, I had never considered it. What a wonderful thing to do. What do you pray when you pass by a Kingdom Hall or LDS church?

Generally, for such places, I pray for the failure of heresy; the mercy and grace of our Lord; the conversion of the lost; the intercession by the local saints; the victory of the gospel; and the glory of God in all respects. At least, as best as I remember.

I started this practice after reading something in the diary of Cotton Mather (1684):

When I have been sitting in a Room full of People, at a Funeral, where they take not much Liberty for Talk, and where yett much Time is most unreasonably lost, I have usually sett my Witts a work, to contrive agreeable Benedictions, for each Person in the Company.

In passing along the Street, I have sell myself to bless thousands of persons, who never knew that I did it; with secret Wishes, after this manner sent unto Heaven for them. Upon the sight of:

A tall Man: Lord, give that Man, High Attainments in Christianity; lett him fear God, above many.

Children at Play: Lord, lett not these Children always forgett the Work, which they came into the World upon.

A Very little Man: Lord, bestow great Blessings upon that Man, and above all, thy Christ, the greatest of Blessings.

A Man carrying a Burden: Lord, help this Man, to carry a burdened Soul, unto his Lord-Redeemer.

A Man on Horseback: Lord, thy Creatures do serve that man; help him to serve his Maker.

Young People: Lord, help these Persons to remember their Creator in the Dayes of their Youth.

Young Gentlewomen: Lord, make `em wise Virgins, as the polish’d Stones of thy Temple.

A Shop-keeper, busy in the Shop: Lord, lett not the World, cause that Person to neglect the one thing that is needful.

A Man, who going by mee took no Notice of mee: Lord help that Man, to take a due Notice of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray thee.