Rizpah Rising

Rizpah  Rising

Rizpah is a woman of the old testament covenant who illustrates incredible sacrifice and intercession to see the nation restored to God. Pastor Charlotte Quist uses the story of Rizpah to exhort us in prayer and fasting for our nation as we continue in this present famine and plague, the global pandemic. Our attention has been increasingly directed at what we are against, but the answer to the problem is found in what we are FOR. Instead of catering to the divisive conversations and rhetoric that is tearing communities apart, Pastor Charlotte calls us all to prayer and fasting, to intercession before God, to repentance, and to vigilance in the spirit. 

Rizpah is an easily overlooked woman in 2 Samuel who loses 2 sons and several grandsons in the process of making Israel right before God after the injustice of king Saul's reign. She defends the bodies of her deceased from vultures and wild animals for six months until God sends rain on the land and delivers Israel from years of famine.  The spirit of Rizpah is a heart that stops at nothing to defend that sacrifice and to make intercession on behalf of a nation who needs to be restored to God.