Lately the sentence/title "Simple Prayers Being Answered in a Big Way" has been hitting me pretty hard. I've been experiencing God in some strange ways lately through other people's lives. It is funny how we say a simple prayer at the end of a long prayer and that simple prayer is the one that gets answered. We don't expect the little one to get answered because it is one that we usually throw on at the end just for safe keeping and maybe even to wrap up what the bigger one is saying. Sometimes you also wonder why you are praying that little pray when really nothing big is happening. Yeah, little things might be happening like keeping people safe on the way to and from somewhere but we usually see that as an every day chance.
We see that as a chance but when you see that something bigger has been answered then there aren't such things as chances anymore when you are praying that certain end prayer. The prayer or request that I usually do especially for my family and friends is this one: "Please keep them safe." Sometimes it is just that or sometimes if something certain is happening I will add on to the end of that with the certain something. I will admit that with this friend that I have kept praying for for about 5 years now. That was my usually way of ending the prayers. It started off because it was something nice to say and everyone needs to be safe.
Then as the years went on and as I was seeing the difference it was making in my friend's life, the more I was praying it because I wanted it to be true in my friend's life. I wanted my friend to be safe. I'll admit to that I've seen and heard dangerous things in my friend's field/career that happened and there is no way I would forgive myself if it ever happened to my friend. It is like the more I live life and the more I pay attention, the more that request really mean something to me when I pray for that friend. I'm using this friend as an example because something big and scary just happen in their life that we both saw God in and I will never say a prayer for the friend without saying that simple prayer ever again.
It was like God showing me in the worst way possible but in a good way at the same time that those simple prayers can have a big answer. You might keep praying them and think nothing is going to happen and it is no good to pray that simple prayer but you are wrong. You never know when a person needs to be safe from something and how bad that something really is. It was also another way of telling me not to give up.
I won't say much about the situation because I don't want to put my friend on the spot that much. I will say, though, my friend did make a video of what really happened when they got shot at and it made tears come to my eyes. Now my friend doesn't know that yet. I think those tears were tears of joy because it should have been a lot worse but God was in every step of the way. God was directly talking to my friend. My friend did things very unusual that night and know my friend knows why. My friend was experiencing God at work in that moment of their life. With two wild dogs coming after my friend and two bullets actually zipped by his head, it is a miracle my friend is still alive in some ways.
I will also say this in the video my friend made, my friend couldn't even talked about it without that scary and shaky voice and this video was made a few days after if not the day after. If a person talks like that after something that big happened, you know it was really, really, really scary for that person. I couldn't even think how scary it was or I would start to cry and have throughout these past few days. My friend even said in the video that he couldn't even sleep at night in his own house on his on land where he should feel really safe. It was hard for him to go to sleep after that. The thoughts were just bothering him and still are. They are still working on the whole case to see if they can find what was going on that night.
I just keep thinking how amazing it was to see God in everything even in the video my friend made. The video just made it rock solid that God was there with him and that even the simple prayers that people pray can be answered in a big way no matter how long it takes you to see the answer to those simple prayers. God will make something happen. I know I can say this about me. sadly, sometimes it takes the hardest things to remove my stubborn view out of sight. I'm glad God is removing my stubbornness while I am single right now.
I will be honest before the video came out about the whole thing, I was thinking about the what ifs and what's next. I can honestly tell you I don't know how I would have reacted if things didn't go the way they did since losing the people I can about is my worst nightmare. God was in every little step, answering every little prayer that has been and will been prayed for him.
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