A Prayer for Godly Influence

Everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms

A prayer based on Matthew 5:14-16.

Hosea was an Old Testament prophet whom God asked to marry a prostitute. Crazy, right? God literally required his prophet to marry someone who not only was already a prostitute when she came on the scene, but also continued to offer herself in exchange for favors after their marriage. It's unthinkable, really, that God would ask a man like Hosea set apart for the work of the Lord to endure such a thing. But at the same time, Hosea's obedience and the circumstances that followed created a perfect picture of what it means to live with the Gospel at the center of our lives.

The only way I can make sense of Hosea's story is that perhaps God created him to be a part of his story for a specific purpose. To display his power, love, grace, and plan of redemption to the onlooking world and to us who are reading about it in his word many years later.

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