I have been prayiing for Elon Musk. As the richest man in the world, he has a huge platform and could bring millions to faith.
I've also been praying for Khabib Nurmagomedov, the old UFC fighter. He is such a humble man who lives out his faith, but of the wrong faith! I'm saddened that the devil has deceived him through has lineage living in a Muslim country.
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I have prayed for Madonna (the singer) since I was a kid. I'm amazed (not in a good way) that there are plenty of rock stars from the 60's and 70's still kicking along, but pretty much everyone who hit it big in the 80's -- Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston -- is gone. She's about the only one left.
I remember in high school when her career was taking of, one of our pastors said, "Hell will be hot for Madonna."
This was the same pastor who confessed to us high school kids that he had problems "watching things he shouldn't" when he attended pastor's conferences without his wife. (The was in the days before the internet and long before smart phones -- so he would have had to have purposely order these "movies" to his hotel room and pay an additional fee for them.)
Now I'm not saying that in judgment of him -- we all have our sins. But what I hated was that he would unabashedly judge someone else he didn't even know when he obviously had his own issues.
Thus, I started praying for Madonna -- and more so when I read interviews about how much she was affected by her mother's death when she was just a child. Not only that, but she described her mother as a devout Catholic whom she saw kneeling on uncooked rice and sleeping on wire hangers "to punish herself for her sins." I know if I'd have seen my parents self-harming in the name of "religion," I would have had a problem with it, too.
However, at one point just a few years ago, I felt God was talking to me about her in the same way as when the prophet Samuel wept over King Saul. God knew Saul wasn't going to repent, and so he pretty much told Samuel, "How long are you going to keep crying over this guy? Get over him and move along, because I've chosen someone else (David.)"
And lately I have felt this in my prayers for Madonna as well. Not in judgment (because I would very much like to see her get saved,) but because only God knows and can judge her heart -- and apparently, He wants me to move on.
But I still talk to Him about her when I see her in the news, and ask if there's any possible way... that she would change her mind.
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