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Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective.

What should we do in the face of the coronavirus epidemic?

Pray for a massive intervention by God. Pray for spiritual awakening!

Certainly, we should pray for protection the from virus—for ourselves, our family and our world. The “Lord’s Prayer” commands us to pray, “Gives us this day our daily bread…and deliver us from evil”. Nonetheless, at the beginning of this prayer, Jesus prioritizes something deeper—the coming of God’s kingdom. As we pray, “Thy kingdom come!”, we pray for the inbreaking and advance of Jesus’s reign over our lives and over every human heart.

Now, history tells us that God often acts in times of crisis to bring both revival to his people and awakening to his world. In such times, the spiritual fog that clouds our vision is suddenly lifted and our state of spiritual need is unveiled.

And so, we should be praying that God would use the present circumstance not just to have us cry for temporal relief, but hunger for Him. We should pray with the prophet Isaiah:

1 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

What we need most right now is God. And so, we pray, “May Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth, even as it is in heaven! Amen.”

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