When I got to church last night I did not see anyone anywhere praying - and was about to leave but wrote a note to Pastor to let him know I had come. So ponder no more - it is my pride and I do want recognition. I did remember his mentioning that we might walk the basement to pray about its reconstruction project so I decided to go downstairs and see if I heard anyone. Sure enough they were there and Pastor of course greeted me with a hug. Prayer time was as wonderfully great and a blessing as always. I also got to retrieve my note and throw it away.
I consider it not such a good thing to want men's recognition, but I also want to know and do believe that the Lord can look through as He says He does to our true heart's desire and real position on it. So I am going to trust that the gift of intercession and my TRUE TRUE desire to pray all the time and for as many loved ones and far away never even to know sisters and brothers in the Lord is a genuine gift of God and not one that He will ever take away in spite of my bouts with pride or fleshly considerations in it.
He prayed all the time for all He needed and He taught us to pray for all the right things: His kingdom come, His will be done, our daily bread, to be forgiven and to be able to forgive others, to protect us from temptation and from anything the devil plans to do to destroy, deceive or distract us in every day.
Paul prayed beautifully in all his epistles, James and Peter too. As a catholic when I was years ago, I loved St.,Theresa, the Little Flower, who was famous as the prayer intercessor for missionaries all over the world while she remained in her cloister in a little corner of Europe. I often think of my aspirations to emulate her as a major part of prayer being such a major event in my Born Again life.
Never doubt the need for prayer and the need for FAITH when you pray and if you know that you are doing both - PRAYING BELIEVING - then never doubt the Lord has answered whether you know it, see it, feel it or whether anything changes or not. My debt seems to be going on forever, but still my heart and peace within say that God has always been answering my prayer about it as HE wills not as I do. I trust Him completely in this and for every other prayer I utter for every other person and thing and I always will.
God bless anyone who may read this and know I have said a prayer for you today. God bless you and protect you and grant you whatever your heart's need and help for whatever life's burden may be and may you know He is holding you close in His embrace - so close His heart is beating in rythym with your own.
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