The Unseen – The Presidential Prayer Team

For you are great and do wondrous things. – Psalm 86:10

As today’s verse says, God is great and does wondrous things. He is great in character—loving, forgiving, holy. He has done great things—created the universe, put order to world events, and redeemed the world through Christ. However, His greatness and wonder are also found in small things—a baby’s giggle, a kind deed, a supplied need. Look around you and spot the wondrous things God is doing in your life and express your gratitude.

The people, provisions, and events that give you pleasure are blessings from God. The character He works in you when things are not going your way is also His gift. Give Him thanks for health, friends, family, and your church. 1 Timothy 6:6 says, “Godliness with contentment is great gain.” When Paul said that he can do all things in Christ (Philippians 4:13) he referred to being content in every situation. Yet Jesus also encouraged His disciples to press into His grace, asking, seeking, and knocking for good and godly things (Matthew 7:7).

As you grow in Him, you realize the most important things are unseen (2 Corinthians 4:18). Seek the Lord for answers and solutions for the issues and needs of the United States, its government officials and its citizens. Give thanks to the unseen God who is great and does wondrous things. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (Colossians 3:16). 

Today’s Verse: Psalm 86:10

For you are great and do wondrous things;
    you alone are God.

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Recommended for further reading: Lamentations 3:19-33

Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
    the wormwood and the gall!
²⁰My soul continually remembers it
    and is bowed down within me.
²¹But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

²²The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
²³they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
²⁶It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷It is good for a man that he bear
    the yoke in his youth.

²⁸Let him sit alone in silence
    when it is laid on him;
²⁹let him put his mouth in the dust—
    there may yet be hope;
³⁰let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
    and let him be filled with insults.

³¹For the Lord will not
    cast off forever,
³²but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
³³for he does not afflict from his heart
    or grieve the children of men.