Luke 19 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Luke 19.

Meditate on verses 30 and 31.

Go into the village ahead of you;

there, as you enter you will find a colt tied

on which no one yet has ever sat;

untie it and bring it here. 

If anyone asks you, “Why are you untying it?” 

you shall say, “The LORD has need of it.”

Jesus entered, not only Jerusalem, but the week of His life when He became the sin of all mankind (2 Corinthians 5:21). He walked from Jericho through the desolate Judean wilderness, to a mountain outside of Jerusalem. He then mounted a colt that had never been ridden in its life, rode down the steep mountain on a winding road, through a valley, up another hill into the gates of Jerusalem. He chose to make His triumphal entry into the most important week in the history of the world on an untamed donkey. Twice Luke recorded that the LORD needed that donkey. The moment that donkey’s Creator sat on it, the untamed beast maneuvered up and down steep paths, with crowds of people cheering and tossing cloaks and palm branches in front of its face; all the while, performing brilliantly because it was under the control of Christ.

That donkey is the picture of your life. Before Jesus, you were an untamed beast, a wild donkey of a person, but Jesus needed you. He needed to be in a relationship with you, so He chose and tamed you, and He goes with you on the winding up and down paths of life.

You are praying for people who appear to be wild donkeys. Jesus has need of them, too. Pray for them to come under Christ’s control.

Pray Luke 19:6, 9, and 48 over those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, make _________ like Zaccheus,

 who received You gladly.

Let salvation come to their house. 

May they hang on to every Word You say.

In Your name, Jesus~”