Confession: I am CRAZY about Focus on the Family and Family Life Today radio broadcasts. They are so practical and almost always help me see my life in view of the gospel and then show me how to act in a God-honoring way in relationships. So this week I was on my way home from Southeastern and I was listening to one about prayer. A Dad was talking about how he had an Autistic daughter who he consistently prayed for everyday, multiple times a day. One way he did this was through making prayer cards that he would write scripture on and then pray them back to God for his daughter. One of the cards quoted Philippians 2:14-15, "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe..." A few days after praying this consistently about his daughter, he went to a parent's night at her school. One of the teachers came up to him and said, "Mr.(well call him Smith), your daughter (we'll call her Sara) is such a light in this school, she just shines and makes everyone happy who is around her. " Mr. Smith was totally floored. Not only was his prayer answered that his daughter would act as a child of God, shining to those around her, but this teacher said exactly the words that he prayed! Ah! God is so good.
So Wednesdays when I drive back from school I usually do a 20-minute prayer thing where i use the acronym ACTS and I spend 5 minutes on Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication (praying for other people and then presenting my requests to God). But this Wednesday after listening to the focus on the family broadcast, I decided to switch things up and just pray for a while without looking at the time constantly and just pray for what came to mind. So during this time I prayed for a specific person about a conversation that needed to happen with one of their friends. I wasn't sure if this conversation had taken place and I just thought I would pray that it would if it hadn't. So... fast forward a few hours and i got the opportunity to talk to this person and what did they say? "well today I got to talk to my friend....." And they proceeded to tell me the gist of the conversation. I don't think I allowed two or three sentences to come out of their mouth before I exclaimed "AHhhh I'm so sorry but can I interrupt you for just a second?!?! Because I prayed that that conversation would happen today!!!" We were both so floored. Then my friends like, well just out of curiosity, what time were you praying? So I thought about it and then figured it out so I said ummm somewhere between 3:45/4 ish? Guess what time my friend starting having the conversation? yeah you guessed it. The same time I was praying. AHHHH! God is so incredible. He always is, sometimes I'm just so stuck on myself instead of just living for Him.
I'll leave you with a passage about prayer, "Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
Pray continually today.
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