A prayer-walk for righteousness and for hope I had to leave the comfort of home to walk on warm, dusty roads while praying for righteousness and for hope. Even though the Bo-Karoo is also a dry and arid land, I had to go walk in other drought stricken places. The theme of the prayer was not the drought, as expected, but there was something else on God’s agenda. It felt like an unreasonable task. Most of the people who I spoke to along the road complained about the drought. The drought shoots violently with arrows of suffering and sorrow. Like a bloodthirsty warrior it breaks with breach upon breach the last of the hope still standing in the scorching wind and sun. We stare with blinded eyes at the glaring drought. And God whispers softly to keep our eyes and hearts undividedly on Him. He laid it in my heart not to pray for rain in this land of thirst and drought, but to pray for righteousness and hope. There is a thirst for righteousness: Blessed are those wh
A journey where intercession becomes part of the daily walk with Jesus.