8. When we pray to God, we must apply the second greatest commandment there, also. God fulfills our needs all the time, throughout our lives; sometimes fulfilling more then we asked for by giving an excess of blessing. He finds pleasure, as our father, when His children come before Him and lift up their petitions, requests, cries, and prayers. When we pray, we are in direct communication before God our Father. And it is such a privilege to know Him and confide our lives in ultimate surrender and faith to Him.
One way we can apply the second commandment, while praying to our Father, is to consider, remember, and bring up before the Lord in prayer and petition, those who are helpless and captive and are being oppressed. One way God has given me grace in doing this, is by bringing to mind, specifically, those who are victims in human and sex trafficking; the young, the weak, and the helpless who are held captive and are abused with terrifying cruelties, being raped, and violated; and are being afflicted, and many, among them, have not heard of the grace and salvation of God; those who do, have their faith tried on an ongoing basis. God has been gracious to me, and I thank Him for helping me regularly to remember the victims of human and sex trafficking. My mind keeps to thought, the hundreds and the thousands who are right now, at this moment, being abused and afflicted as I write of this. It is non-stop. If one “light blinks out”, there's another to replace it. If one case of cruelty has paused, there's another one, somewhere in the world that has started.
The point of this, is that, God calls us to remember and pray for our neighbor; especially the helpless who are afflicted, and those in need, who are being held captive. God delights in our prayers and requests, and there is no prayer which God holds as insignificant. If He did so, He would not be our Father. A Father delights and rejoices in the communication of his children; those from the smallest of the world, to the greatest of the world. And yet, to mix into all of that, He wants us to consider, to remember, and to pray for others, our neighbors. God sees all, and remembers everyone's needs. We have freely received of God. Christian simplicity, calls us, to freely give unto others. (Matthew 10:8)
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