At times like these, and folks ask me to pray. I can’t help it… its just the first thought that comes to me, and we can analyze it later but…
“What good is that gonna do?”
“Why would God listen to me about this?”
So what I do with thoughts in a case like this, is OBEDIENCE…
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
And so here we are, me praying for a person, who is part of a family that we care about deeply. And that family extends out into extended family.
“Father, God…
Das Vater Unser
Vater unser im Himmel,
geheiligt werde dein Name.
Dein Reich komme.
Dein Wille geschehe,
wie im Himmel so auf Erden.
Unser tägliches Brot gib uns heute.
Und vergib uns unsere Schuld,
wie auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldigern.
Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung,
sondern erlöse uns von dem Bösen.Denn dein ist das Reich und die Kraft
und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit.Amen.
God, as I feel my way forward in this prayer… I just pray the way I want to pray, and I’m on this page, creating this page, the way that I want to. In Galatians 5, your word, the words come to me… Keep in step with the Spirit… and this is where I am in my element, through constant practice… I’m running, and I am pausing, to explain it to those that I want to see this prayer, and to know my struggle to pray right now, in times like these.
As I came here to pray, I needed a picture to connect to, so I chose the one that moved my heart, the one up there. And its curious, I chose to create a children’s colouring book page, and there it is. The thought came to me…
- why such a childish image
And then I remembered Sarah’s prayer request, to pray for her family, but especially Georgia.
I went looking for her brother’s wife’s name… and when I found it, it was tagged, and I followed the link… and there as the cover page of the fb profile, was this picture… I think I know which one Georgia is…
And God, nothing is “…on account of a accident” its all passed by you! And I need to clarify…
- everything in your KINGDOM happens… according to the plan [Your Plan, Father God] who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of [your] will,
You are in control. Loving heavenly Father, as far as the East is from the West… is how much of a task it is to understand YOU, but I trust you. Oh, God, when we meet face to face then we shall know, even also as we are known, but now we know in part, in bits in pieces, and in times like these we are humbled to the very depths of our soul, we cannot comprehend YOU… but God, we trust in you!
Those who trust in you will not be disappointed! Oh, God, I pray, for belief! Its a gift of God, its a gift from you! Its a promise from you! You are not willing that any should perish! For by grace are WE saved through faith,
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
When we respond to the belief you hold out to us in our hearts… and we take hold of it, I don’t understand this God, but to quote it there in John 1:12,
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
God, I’m so glad you taught me to pause… and go see what you ACTUALLY SAID… just now as I’m praying for Georgia… my own family member who is in crisis… phoned me, and those scriptures, the ones printed, and the one’s linked to… flowed out of me, into his heart, and faith replaced the doubt of JACK… I only had a few seconds before the meeting he’d gone to started… he turned to me, and I turned to God in prayer, outloud… resisting whatever it is in us when we think that its ME that will save, STOP trusting in MAN, I’m a man… he’s a man… human beings… stop putting your trust in mere human beings!
I was wrestling with that thought …and there it is… again and again, the God that formed me, and knew me, the me that “pre-existed” me, that me, that was the thought of God… the thoughts of God, as he knit me together in my mum’s womb… and so also is David, and each and every one of us!
Look at those words again, friends,
When we respond to the belief you hold out to us in our hearts… and we take hold of it,
…but I’m obedient to the habit you taught me… I looked it up!
It wasn’t belief that was held out to them there in that ancient time… it was the Living God made flesh… John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
John 1:18 NIV
A Dios nadie lo ha visto nunca; el Hijo único, que es Dios y que vive en unión íntima con el Padre, nos lo ha dado a conocer.
Jesus Christ came to reveal the unfathomable… that word conocer, the Spanish rendering, means, “to unfold” … to make known, its very different from “…to tell about” Jesus Christ was God translated into human form! And we, his disciples, are that very same thing! I hope you doubt that! I hope you are saying, “WOE there buddy!” so that you can ponder, and pause! But yes, and emphatic YES!
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
God this is me praying, Laurence, praying for Georgia, and she needs a dad, she’s got a dad, David, you know him by name!, I know his name now, but you know him utterly! and Georgia needs a family, and she has a family, and then some!
God, raise up Sarah’s brother from the ashes of unbelief? No, its time Lord God, to call him back from the wilderness journey he’s been on.
God I AM NOT deciding that I know, or pretending to know what you’re doing, I cannot comprehend this that’s happened and is happening, but God if ever there was “such a time as this” its now!
- God, you sent a woman, who is filled with your Holy Spirit! A lady who is no stranger to the battles of this life…
- its David’s Mom!
- Joan is on her way to her son, God’s lost child… how will they know unless someone speaks the truth…
- Bu Joan is also your hand extended!
- blessed are JOAN’s feet that bring the good news in season, this season, in this storm…
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
There’s never been a better time, for Sarah’s brother to open his eyes as he lies prostrate on the ground,
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
face down in the dust, eating dust, to see your hand extended to him… God, speak to him in the language he understands, what would you say to him, to get him to take a hold of your hand? Is it Peter, Lord? Is it the words you said to Peter, when he’d stepped out of the boat, and saw the waves, and sank!?!?
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
You know what to do! You are already DOING!
Its JOAN… his mom, its Jesus hand immediately reaching out his hand… God protect and preserve Joan… give supernatural health! God, you teleported that disciple to the Ethiopian …. oh… no! I looked it up! God did not! That wasn’t until after the call had been completed.
39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. Acts 8:39
God I pray that you will protect and preserve Joan, and that she’ll know when its time to leave, and time to stay. Bring others along side of David, his family, the community Lord! Bring re-enforcements! Halelujah!
…its just that YOU always know what to say… you know WHO to send… and the result will be that Sarah’s brother, David (Georgia’s Daddy, Georgia’s ABBA Father) will RECIEVE your WORD, Jesus Christ, your son, is the LIVING word, and he takes hold of that by the part of the body that BELIEVES… and in that transaction, he will receive the POWER TO BECOME your child… and his feet will be on the path of listening-obedience… I may not know much, but it isn’t what I know, its WHO I know…
Yes, Thank you Father for leading me here, to this prayer, for Georgia… God… I’m praying for all of the above… reacquire! Joan and John’s son, Sarah’s brother, Georgia’s Daddy… and take a hold of him, In Jesus Name, Amen!
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