The Bible encourages us to pray for what God alone can change—for church and government leaders, for the salvation of persons in other nations and future generations, for social ills that blight a land and moral decline that endangers the young, for the restraint of Satan and the soon coming of the Savior. Our failure to pray for such things is usually not due to our lack of concern—they are sometimes our greatest anxieties—but rather due to our limited perspective on the power of prayer.
