God’s Answers are Wiser than Our Prayers
A friend many years ago gave me a magnet that says “GOD’S ANSWERS ARE WISER THAN OUR PRAYERS”. Well, one Christmas I placed this on the outside of my front door in the middle of my Christmas wreath for decoration. When I went to remove it I could not. That magnet is now basically melted to the front door of my house as a reminder to myself and all who enter my home that God does have everything under control just maybe not the way we think it should be happening.
Ok, part of this blog and the reason for it is for me to be honest with myself and all of you, my prayer warriors….. I have no idea what God is doing in my life right now. There are a few things such as full time missions that I believe are supposed to happen but He is not revealing to me when or where. I have a tremendous desire to go on a short term missions trip, have not been on one in almost two years and I have the time and the finances yet this also is not coming together. It appears more than likely the trip to Honduras in January is not going to happen. The head of this ministry and I were emailing back and forth yesterday and we both have had experiences where things don’t come together and later you see the reason for it. However, when I am in the midst of this not knowing and doors closing sometimes it is difficult. I try to remind myself of all of God’s provision which is much more than I ever could have asked for, prayed for or dreamed of in my wildest dreams. My life looks nothing like I thought it would if you had asked me 10 years ago but it is SO MUCH BETTER!!!!
So, I ask for your prayers for wisdom and guidance along with patience yet again. Isaiah 30:15 says “in quietness and trust will be your strength”, my desire is to seek God more and rest in Him so please join me in praying for this.
Yet again, PT’s sermon came along at the right time as a reminder of the challenge to keep the faith. Challenging me to not look for God to answer my questions, but instead to focus on what God wants me to be instead of what He wants me to do. Please join me in praying as Paul did to the church at Colossae, I am praying this for all of you.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
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We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people—5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.7 You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant,[c] who is a faithful minister of Christ on our[d] behalf, 8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you.We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[e] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[f] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
