Today I am compelled. Today I will pray. I will pray for that special place that holds my heart, tangles my guts, and renders me helpless with excitement. I pray for them many times, but today it's like a blaring horn in my head beckoning me to focus very specifically in prayer for that nation.
Naming people by name
Speaking out the names of cities and villages
Being vocal about various needs of specific individuals
I will go about the Lord's business in prayer about this nation, their people, my friends, the work, my life there. I have one of those moments when you know what the Spirit is calling you to do, and it is obvious what needs to be done. So today I will pray blessing and revelation, dreams, and words of compassion and conviction over this place.
What if we all sat down as believers all at once and prayed over the areas in the world that call out to us with hunger and thirst of the salvation of Jesus. If we all sat down with the Holy Spirit prompting our words, stirring our passions for these areas in the world. I wonder what a significant impact that would be for the people of the world and even ourselves.
Because God listens, and even though I am not present among the people I wish to serve, my God is ever-present working on the hearts and minds of those who will love him. So today I will pray that his efforts will take root in those hearts and more readily accept him as Lord and Savior filled with salvation and blessing. I will even pray that he make ready more hearts in this nation. I believe he can, and I believe he will.
So if there is a place in the world that is tender in your heart, if there is a place you feel convicted for, maybe you should join me today. Even if it is only for a few minutes, join me in forgetting our sphere of influence and remembering God's sphere of influence where through prayer we are able to be.
Many grand gestures of God have been shown because of prayer and faith of individuals. Because God listens, we should have faith that he will do what the righteous desires of our hearts ask for.
All to God
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Custom Called
Hallelujah for the sun and no wind today! This makes me a very happy camper, really though..it improves my mood leaps and bounds. It has been a beautiful weekend in general which is great considering all my griping about the nasty weather this past week. Anywho....
The season is coming that is filled with romping and playing. I am one to romp and play with the best of them. I am so very glad I get to spend the majority of the spring season with my family before I shove off to Europe. It's just a pleasant time where not only flowers and trees blossom but also ideas, schemes, and plans all of the fun sort I might add. I am glad I get to make ideas, schemes, and plans with them, and make a few memories that later in life a sentence will start off with "Hey remember spring of 2013 when..." and hopefully that sentence will end hilariously.
I am so very excited about going and ministering in Europe, I am excited to work with missionaries there, and make friends with locals that will hopefully and literally last forever. I am so glad that God has laid this in my lap, I am so grateful that he entrusts me to use the Spirit wisely among these people. More and more as I find out more about myself, as life tends to be the teacher, I am glad that he is always there guiding and leading.
Every single day I think about how blessed I am that I have a family who supports me so fully even through their fears and worries. Because love casts out fear, and for the sake of my passion and the sake of the Christ-less people they cast out their fear out of love for me, and the Lord's people who he is preparing for himself. I don't care what you say, my family is the most courageous people I know. They allow and encourage their only single daughter and sister to follow God wherever he takes her, even if it is out of their midst. Not to mention all the worried cousins, aunts, and uncles, they also encourage with a heart of love which is bigger than their fears.
Beautiful days like today just put my mind in a state of thanks and gratefulness to God for giving me such wonderful people to tread this path of life with. My heart is many ties overwhelmed by my position in life, how God has used it and will use it, molding me in a way that I will be most useful. Because that's just how God is, he is personal, relate-able, and he listens. He understands the desires of our hearts and many times if we are just looking to serve him with our lives he will put us in these positions and we will find fulfillment there because it is suited for us and for his purposes. Call it custom-called.
Today I praise him for using me for his purpose in a way I grasp and embrace, though does not come without difficulty. Difficulty comes with the territory, we are not promised ease or comfort, but we are blessed through the difficulties and for that reason we must bless. I have a stellar family, and I am so ready to give those who do not yet know Jesus the biggest and best family there has ever lived; the family of God.
I'm jazzed up, and that's alright, have a beautiful day!
All to God
The season is coming that is filled with romping and playing. I am one to romp and play with the best of them. I am so very glad I get to spend the majority of the spring season with my family before I shove off to Europe. It's just a pleasant time where not only flowers and trees blossom but also ideas, schemes, and plans all of the fun sort I might add. I am glad I get to make ideas, schemes, and plans with them, and make a few memories that later in life a sentence will start off with "Hey remember spring of 2013 when..." and hopefully that sentence will end hilariously.
I am so very excited about going and ministering in Europe, I am excited to work with missionaries there, and make friends with locals that will hopefully and literally last forever. I am so glad that God has laid this in my lap, I am so grateful that he entrusts me to use the Spirit wisely among these people. More and more as I find out more about myself, as life tends to be the teacher, I am glad that he is always there guiding and leading.
Every single day I think about how blessed I am that I have a family who supports me so fully even through their fears and worries. Because love casts out fear, and for the sake of my passion and the sake of the Christ-less people they cast out their fear out of love for me, and the Lord's people who he is preparing for himself. I don't care what you say, my family is the most courageous people I know. They allow and encourage their only single daughter and sister to follow God wherever he takes her, even if it is out of their midst. Not to mention all the worried cousins, aunts, and uncles, they also encourage with a heart of love which is bigger than their fears.
Beautiful days like today just put my mind in a state of thanks and gratefulness to God for giving me such wonderful people to tread this path of life with. My heart is many ties overwhelmed by my position in life, how God has used it and will use it, molding me in a way that I will be most useful. Because that's just how God is, he is personal, relate-able, and he listens. He understands the desires of our hearts and many times if we are just looking to serve him with our lives he will put us in these positions and we will find fulfillment there because it is suited for us and for his purposes. Call it custom-called.
Today I praise him for using me for his purpose in a way I grasp and embrace, though does not come without difficulty. Difficulty comes with the territory, we are not promised ease or comfort, but we are blessed through the difficulties and for that reason we must bless. I have a stellar family, and I am so ready to give those who do not yet know Jesus the biggest and best family there has ever lived; the family of God.
I'm jazzed up, and that's alright, have a beautiful day!
All to God
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