EVERY LITTLE PRAYER/ HE HEARS       1ST DEC 2011 | 1 NOTE

                                     

Ever been in an place of prayer of worship where you’re so vulnerable in the presence of God, and you start to pray some radical prayers? You know those prayers that sound a little like this : “Lord break me for what makes you”, “Father use me!”, “Make me like Christ”…and the list goes on.            

After that moment of worship passes, we continue on to our daily lives and completely forget about these spirit led prayers— that is until, a wicked combination of rejection, failure, and pain slaps us back into reality. This combination occurs when all of a sudden our friends start to disappoint us, relationships are abruptly broken, and the world seems to be against us. That place of loneliness when everything and everyone you’ve ever held to high esteem seems to be ignoring you and you are left alone to battle with your own thoughts.

This place is deep, and scary in that we often start to confuse this time of isolation as the enemy attacking our lives. So what happens? We pray for God to “fix” the situation and do everything in our physical state to repair broken relationships. The problem with this fixing is that it was never supposed to occur in the first place. In fact, we often confuse this point of suffering as a spiritual attack when in actuality God is answering those spirit led prayers.

It’s funny how we Christians remember the prayers of tangible blessings, i.e.- straight A’s, a new car, admission to law school,etc. Yet when we ask God to “break us for what makes Him”, that is an open door for whatever God needs to do to answer this prayer. All of us want spiritual growth but we are not willing to go through the process of actually being broken and purified into a vessel empty enough to be used by God. The bible tells us in Psalm 37:23 that “The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.” Meaning that as generalized as that prayer point is, God still delights in the detailed aspects of the answer. Thank God He does not answer with a general response but instead sees fit to form and perfect every detail of our prayers.

The important part, is that all of us need to understand the power of prayer: “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” (Mark 11:24). Despite our understanding the word of God always has and always will hold true, so it is very important that we understand that no matter the prayer, God hears it and will answer it according to His will.

In everything that we do and ask for, remember that Every Little Thing matters.

Over & Out!

-MsYenckopowa