"Duck Dynasty" star Sadie Robertson is using her popularity to get people to pray for the victims of the Louisiana flooding, saying that she strongly believes that prayer can help solve people's current woes.
On her Instagram account (@legitsadierob), the "Live Original" teenager posted a photo showing two men wading through the floods.
"Pray for Louisiana. This flood has affected so many people's lives already, and will continue to cause people hurt for a while now. It's in times like these where everyone must come together and PRAY! Pray for strength to get through it, pray for comfort to those who lost everything, and pray for hope that eventually it will get better," she writes.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jim Denison, founder of the non-sectarian "think tank" Denison Forum on Truth and Culture, says faith is relevant to the disasters of life, so it's important to pray.
"God can and often does intervene in natural circumstances," he writes for Charisma News. "We should pray boldly and consistently for God's protection and intervention, knowing that anything our Father has ever done, He can still do."
Denison adds that even though God can prevent all natural diseases and disasters, He chooses not to do so because people would live forever in their fallen bodies if He did.
"Abraham would be 4,000 years old; Paul would be 2,000 years old. We would not step from our diseased bodies into God's perfect paradise. In our fallen world (Rom. 8:22), God uses natural death to bring about supernatural life," he explains.
At the same time, God redeems even though He does not prevent bad things from happening. Denison says wonderful things happen during disasters because people exhibit their kindness and humanitarian spirit.
"We will see future good from present suffering and eternal reward for those who are faithful in hard times. As Paul noted, 'The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us' (Rom. 8:18)," he says.
