Monday, January 12, 2015

Lesson 101-Trusting without Borders...

Ok. So I am doing this 40 days of Promise challenge and thinking-HA....been checking off the scriptures on the list and thinking...not bad-this is doable! I'm wearing my bracelet and bee-bopping around the house in time to the sunshine thinking...hey!...this trust thing isn't as hard as I thought it would be. (Did you hear the clinking of the buttons popping off my shirt?! and...YEAH. God. took. care. of. that. this. week....again.)


Life. happens. and. rugs. get. pulled.out. and. bodies. fall. down... and that bracelet got some serious mileage going back and forth between each wrist as I desperately clung to scripture after scripture while God spoke assurance and grace into my situation.
I sat there 
with my spiral bound note cards
chock full of scriptures on them
...sobbing. 
w.e.e.p.i.n.g. 
Desperately wishing I could make decisions for others that could change them...desperately needing to trust God is in control. Been there? 
trust. without. borders.
trust. without. borders.
trust. without .borders.
So I heard God singing over me
...Honey...you need to 
pray. without. borders....
and so as I trust my prayers are heard...
I learn to trust The One that Answers.
So-lesson 101 in trusting without borders...
LEARNING HOW TO PRAY WITHOUT BORDERS...

As long as my trust in God is contained and controllable in my own little world- my faith is empty and powerless.

My praying 
looked more like a
 Christmas list to Santa 
than a petition to
the Creator of the Universe 
who holds
 ALL things in His hands.
wishing.
wanting.
waiting.
Instead of 
praying.
resting.
trusting.

Intercession is hard work and it isn't childrens play. Praying is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal. 
Anguishing over loved ones
over results of poor choices
over diagnosis
over broken lives & broken hearts
over dying marriages
over dying children
over distorted views
over sin in the house of God.
Praying.
Worship.

When I pray in faith-trusting that He is able to do far above what I can even imagine...I can rest.

FOR HE IS...

Lion of Judah who defends me!
The Prince of Peace who comforts the downcast!
The Great Physician who heals my wounds!
The Mighty Warrior who goes before me into battle!
The Wonderful in whom I can delight!
The Counselor who guides me!
The Creator who constantly renews me!
The Husbandman that Redeems me!
The Lamb who was slain for me!
The Son of God who is my brother and friend!
The Faithful and True!
The God that cannot lie!
The Lover of my soul!


And if He is who I am calling on...how can I not trust Him? Praise God, that He has done all these things for me. Friend, I pray that you hear God singing over you today--because He has done these things for you.



So-today-I choose to keep the bracelet on my wrist--without moving it to the other wrist...because today--I choose to pray to the one 
WHO WAS
WHO IS
AND IS TO COME 






2 comments:

  1. Sheryl, this is so good! Just this morning I was challenged with prayer too, from Luke 11. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, He followed it up by saying, "Whoever asks receives." Consistent, persistent prayer is an act of trust. Thank you so much for spurring me on, sister! Love you!

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    1. Even though we physically are worlds away-we serve a God who speaks truths to the hearts of His own-Omni-presence! As believers-he always hears and answers our prayers and I am forever thankful that He responds to me with YES and AMEN! ~Press on to the high calling in Christ!

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