Heart of the City: Pray for the City

We’ve been studying Jeremiah 29, a passage in our scripture library where God calls the people of Israel living in exile in Babylon to not just live in the city, but to seek the shalom, the universal holistic flourishing, of the city. This week we look at a sacred aspect of that call for us as a faith community — God calls us to pray to the Lord on behalf of the city. We’re called to first listen to our neighbors so that we can know “their behalf”, and then let our hearts be moved deeply for our city, and for that to call us to reach out to a power greater than us on behalf of our neighbors and neighborhoods. Let our hearts be moved to love. Let our souls be stirred to prayer. And let our hands be called to action.