As you may have read earlier in the month, I committed to praying for Pastor 3 times a day for the month of September. This has been soooo great for me. Not only did I enjoy doing it, being accountable made me more focused and diligent in my prayer life. I plan to continue this habit and hope to be a blessing to others in the meantime.
I am actually planning on doing the same thing with Riky next month. I will not only pray for him, but document what and when I prayed. I know that he will be blessed by it and I think that it will not only knit my heart closer to his, but his to mine also. I was thinking about doing this for him anyway, but then he actually asked me if I would journal prayers for him like I was doing for Pastor. Of course I will. I am looking forward to it and was planning on doing that very thing.
I have recently had an answer to a prayer that I have been praying for almost 5 years now. It is amazing how God works. I had given up most of my hope that this prayer would be answered "yes". I was still praying for the issue, but I had changed my prayer over the last 6 months to asking God to take this desire from me. I don't ever want to not be content where I am, so I felt that I was the one who needed to change. I recently realized that although I was not content yet with a "no" answer, I was not begging God to answer "yes".
Last night He answered "yes".
I was floored!
5 years! What a mighty God we serve! He gives us everything in His timing, and I think that there are times when we would receive it sooner, but we stand in the way of Him showing His might. Sometimes He has to take time to nudge us to the side so that we can really see what He is doing in our lives.
Not to self: get my behind out of the way a little faster next time!
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