Scripture

Our verse for today comes from Matthew 14:30b, “Lord, save me!”

Background

On a stormy night Lee Roy Culley climbed out from under the pool table a changed man. The storm, lightning, and terrible wind had finally subsided. The turmoil in his heart had also been arrested by God. Lee Roy had cried out to God in fear and conviction – “Lord, save me!” and Jesus Christ came into this pool-shooting, drunken welder’s life. Lee Roy was a new creature in Jesus. He and his precious wife Nancy served Christ faithfully for 30-plus years as lay leaders and Sunday School teachers. Countless lives are now a part of the Kingdom because of his witness and life of service to the Christ who saved him that night under a pool table as he cried out a simple, yet profound prayer – “Lord save me!”

Application

Peter’s prayer, “Lord, save me,” may be the shortest prayer in the Bible. Even so, it also remains an eternal, far-reaching prayer. It reminds us that any transformed life is always the product of God’s gracious intervention. This intervention is what we are praying toward as we ask the Lord to send a spiritual awakening to our land.

Charge

As we seek Him today, pray for one lost person to experience God’s gracious intervention through faith in Christ. Ask the Lord to have mercy on His church for our apathy toward lostness in America.

Salvation – Eternal Life in Less Than 150 Words