I’m about to head to bed, but before heading up I thought I would check on the word prompt of the week from Miss Kate. This week the word is prayer. I had to think about it for a little while before It happened came to me. It didn’t come out quite the way my brain originally played it out, but the general jist is there I think. 🙂
It happened
It happened,
just like that.
Prayer requested,
a house to sell,
a home to find,
and bam, done.
God provided swiftly.
It happened,
over time,
a community joining
together.
A child sick,
it took some time.
Health restored.
God provided healing.
It happened,
“God, I want this job!”
And “God, I need this job!!!”
and yet
time and again,
No job came.
yet God provide care
And enough to make do.
Sometimes the answer is NO.
It happened
The sword of the
Spirit, moving swiftly
in a heart.
“Oh God, forgive me”
“I wasn’t thinking”
“It seemed such a small thing”
and God showed mercy
Forgiveness granted.
It happened,
a sustained prayer
over time.
And yet more time
will pass.
What will be the result?
It still open for
an answer to be poured
forth.
and yet. God’s care
does not stop.
What Does God say?
I John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
2 Chronicles 6:21 Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
Ephesians 6:18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Psalm 4:1 Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.
I’ve given up asking for healing;
God has other plans for me,
and some say my heart should be pealing
prayers for death with dignity,
but that is really not my way,
not dignified, for I’m a clown
who meets each new and dreadful day
determined it won’t get me down,
and so I joke my way through life;
can’t dance now, but I can sing
‘Dancing Queen’ unto my wife
in the hope that it will bring
a smile to her sad worried face,
and in this hell, a touch of grace.
sometimes, the answer is given in a way we didn’t expect. So pleased you are able to give your wife a moment or two of grace. 🙂
Love this poetic portrait of prayer!
thank you Barb. 🙂
Amen! God is so Good visiting from fmf #4
He is very good to us.
Prayer is your weapon. Like the soil loves the tree and gives life to the tree, so does prayer give life to your soil. Prayer cradles life whether answered here or there (heaven). (This was my message to Andrew. We must be on the same wavelength. God’s timing)
true that. good answer
A beautiful testimony of His faithfulness to hear and answer every cry of the heart through prayer.
thank you Lisa.
Thank you, dear Annette! 💚
You are most welcome, Miss Wren. 🙂
Beautifully written and expressed
Thanks for sharing.
thank you Sandra
Forgiveness granted. Without a doubt, our greatest answered prayer. Thanks for sharing!
I know, sometimes I think we forget the enormity of that.
Beautiful and heartfelt. Just beautiful. Thank you for this encouragement and reminder today.
You are most welcome Lori. my pleasure indeed.
Love this Annette.
FMF #18
Thank you Paula