....Listening and Praying.
God has really stressed those two things to me already this month. It just seems like He has something He wants me to hear but I haven't quite figured it out yet. The sermons and Bible studies have been about prayers and listening. I know I need to spend some more time listening to Him especially from the Bible but I thought I had praying down. I have done it all my life and I am a big fan of it. Yet everything has been on a deeper level in prayer. It hasn't just been on how to pray but how we can pray for deeper things. How to have a real talk with God and then wait for an answer whether we like it or not.
My problems are remembering and/or looking for answers to my prayers. There are times God will pop in and say, "hey, remember when you prayed this. Here is the answer." I know there are some times when He doesn't remind me but then I look back and am like "oh, there the answer was." It could have been I missed it totally or just wasn't what I wanted it to be. God does that a lot because He knows better then us. Lately, that is what I have been leaning about. I have also been learning about how to pray for a deeper meaning of life without being scared to. Letting go of things because that is easier later in life.
I have been learning that God has a plan for this earth and He just uses me to make it come true. He also wants other people to see Him working through my life. He has a plan for me already so why try to change it through prayer. I just need to be willing and let Him know that. I have also seen that I can be too detailed in my prayers but that is also my personality. I like details and to know what is happening but then again how can we see God at work if we only limit Him to what we think He can do.
It is also strange how God would start the theme at my AR church and then continue it for two Sundays at my parents' church. If that doesn't tell you something, then I don't know what will. I have so many entries on prayer that I will be lucky if they don't go into next month and if I get them all written out. The entries will be about things like the strategy of prayer, how to pray, the different ways we can get the answers to pray and so on. I am really interested to look back on the month later on in the year or like next year and see some of the results because of learning about prayer.
I can also see how good I listened to God and followed Him. It will be kind of like a test for me. I think God is deepening my prayer life because He knows after a year that I can handle it. He tested me last year through all of the trials to see if I would trust Him and now He knows I will and is putting me to His work. We'll see what God does with all of this knowledge. I'll try to keep you all updated the best I can.
My problems are remembering and/or looking for answers to my prayers. There are times God will pop in and say, "hey, remember when you prayed this. Here is the answer." I know there are some times when He doesn't remind me but then I look back and am like "oh, there the answer was." It could have been I missed it totally or just wasn't what I wanted it to be. God does that a lot because He knows better then us. Lately, that is what I have been leaning about. I have also been learning about how to pray for a deeper meaning of life without being scared to. Letting go of things because that is easier later in life.
I have been learning that God has a plan for this earth and He just uses me to make it come true. He also wants other people to see Him working through my life. He has a plan for me already so why try to change it through prayer. I just need to be willing and let Him know that. I have also seen that I can be too detailed in my prayers but that is also my personality. I like details and to know what is happening but then again how can we see God at work if we only limit Him to what we think He can do.
It is also strange how God would start the theme at my AR church and then continue it for two Sundays at my parents' church. If that doesn't tell you something, then I don't know what will. I have so many entries on prayer that I will be lucky if they don't go into next month and if I get them all written out. The entries will be about things like the strategy of prayer, how to pray, the different ways we can get the answers to pray and so on. I am really interested to look back on the month later on in the year or like next year and see some of the results because of learning about prayer.
I can also see how good I listened to God and followed Him. It will be kind of like a test for me. I think God is deepening my prayer life because He knows after a year that I can handle it. He tested me last year through all of the trials to see if I would trust Him and now He knows I will and is putting me to His work. We'll see what God does with all of this knowledge. I'll try to keep you all updated the best I can.
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