Prayer
So…The other night, something really exciting happened and I really want to share it with whoever reads this blog!
I’ve been thinking about my prayer life, lately…A while back, Joyce Meyer had a few 90-second devotionals (It’s an iTunes podcast) about prayer and ever since then it’s been in the back of my mind. Amazingly enough, a couple weeks after that while looking through a devotional, Joyce Meyer was talking about prayer again. These devotions are two totally separate things. Well, every once and a while I get to thinking about my prayer life and it was strong on my heart Monday night.
I’m not necessarily unhappy with my prayer life, but I could definitely improve my prayer life. As I was thinking about this, I wasn’t really sure what it was I was wanting to improve. I thought about it…I talk to God regularly throughout the day every day. Sometimes it’s light-hearted, sometimes it’s a deep and serious prayer, sometimes I just laugh and joke with Him, ask questions, talk about random things, thank Him, etc... As I was thinking about it, I wasn’t sure what it was I wanted to improve other than “my prayer life.” I prayed over my prayer life and then I went straight to the Bible and looked up “prayer” in the index. That wasn’t quite what I was looking for…Then I remembered Mike Bickle’s lecture packet that he gave out at OneThing ’10. I was so excited because SURELY there had to be something about prayer in there! I looked under my bed where I keep all my note journals and stacks of bibles, pulled out last years journal and found the packet…opened up flat and quite bluntly to the FIRST page of the section, “How to Develop a Strong Prayer Life.”
At first I just kind of stared at it blankly in amazement and then burst into laughter, looking up and shaking my finger at God saying, “Oh yeah. You’re a funny one.”
Saying another prayer of wonder and awe and thanks, I dug into the 4, but POWERFUL pages of Mike Bickle’s lecture outline on prayer. Before, I had no idea what I was looking for, but when I started reading, I knew this was exactly it all along.
It really showed me that, #1: God is so amazing! And #2: The little things matter.
God is SO good and SO amazing and all-knowing!! Knowing that something as “simple” as leaving a lecture booklet folded open to a lesson for me to open on another day in the future when I am ready to finally understand and take in the information!!
But…there’s that word “simple” again, if you read my blog right about Genesis 1-2 (The Creator). It seems so simple from my man-centered perspective, when it was really something God knew all along, waiting for me to open my heart and mind to that message ever so patiently. <3
Wow!! I’m amazed. I love you, God! Your ways are so mysterious and amazing. What an amazing night. =)
I encourage you all to look up these AMAZING notes!!
Here is the 1-hr lesson from OneThing if you’re interested: http://mikebickle.org/resources/resource/3006?return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmikebickle.org%2Fresources%2Fseries%2Fonething2010
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