The Best Thing You Can Do For Others Is Pray For Them

God has His reasons for allowing problems in life, and one of the main reasons is to teach us to pray. He lets us come to the end of our rope, the end of our strength and what we think we can do to solve the problem at hand, so we will realize that He’s the One who has got to do it and pray for Him to work, by His power.

If there’s something we can do to help the situation and we ask Him what that is and how to go about it, He will show us and help us do it. But in the end, the thing that will help more than anything and without which all our labors are incomplete, is prayer—to pray for Him to do the work in the spirit.

He’s the only One who can change hearts and minds. He’s the only One who can bring people to the point where they’re willing to change or do whatever’s necessary to make progress or fix the problem. So the best thing we can do to help people who are having problems is to pray for them. We can’t do the miracle that’s needed, but the Lord can. Our prayers move His hand and make things happen in the spiritual realm that change things in our physical realm.

“And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.” Job 42:10