Disruption: anything that messes with my routine.

Caesar Augustus needed a headcount so he could collect taxes. So Joseph left his projects in the carpenter shop, got his donkey, and took Mary (being great with child) on a trek to Bethlehem. Not their choice. Dreams and plans disrupted.

Today's economic downturn - a massive disruption. Many of us have felt the pain of being told, "Your job has been terminated." Or maybe you're a young person completing your schooling only to find out that the career opportunity you had worked so hard to prepare for no longer exists. Dreams and plans disrupted.

Where do we turn? We feel helpless. And so we turn to prayer. "Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs" (Hallesby, 1994).*

The Church of the Lutheran Brethren Prayer Team has been praying for unemployed persons in our churches and neighborhoods. We are also asking God to show us ways we can step up and help them.

Disruption? It's nothing we can't bring to God, for "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us" (1 John 5:14).

The CLB Prayer Team, on-call to pray for requests from our family of churches.
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*Ole Hallesby, Prayer (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1994), 30.

By CLB Prayer Team

The CLB Prayer Team. On-call to pray for requests from our family of churches. Send prayer requests by email to pray@prayclb.org.

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