Prayer. Such a beautiful thing. Such an awesome privilege. And yet there’s something about it that I just can't wrap my mind around.
How often have I put God in a little box and "thought" I knew how He should do things? I've taken Him for granted at times and used the "prayer button" when it makes me feel better. I've been guilty of using the right words, saying the right things, praying the right prayers... but not putting my heart 100% behind it. - Not really understanding the power of prayer. You see... I tend to limit God to what I have seen and what I have experienced. I tend to pray what looks like is already going to happen. I pray the probable and it's so easy to forget that God is bigger than the obstacles I see. He makes the impossible, possible!
What would happen if we "got it"? If we just believed Him and took Him at His word. What if we realized that the things we really want most is what He's already promised us. What if we understood that the things that, at the end of the day, that we yearn for, are what He's already told us we can have! You and I both know He holds the bigger picture. He has more for us than we can imagine. – than we can even dream to know. What would happen if we stopped trying to tell Him what we want and let Him tell us what He knows. Seriously people. We know His plan is going to be better than ours anyhow. So step out of the way and let Him do it already!!
Last night I stood in the First Baptist Sanctuary in Houston with several hundred other women, worshiping from the deepest part of my heart. As we sang, "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", a phrase in the lyrics suddenly hit me and I knelt down to grab my pen and wrote these words on the palm of my hand, "Ponder anew... what the Almighty can do..."
And I thought to myself. Hannah, you've been putting God in that box. There's no need to pray the probable when your God is so much bigger than that! His plan for you will more than likely take you somewhere you can't even begin to dream!
Ponder: To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.
Anew: In a new and different way, form, or manner.
Almighty: Having absolute power; all-powerful.
My point exactly.
~Hannah
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I like this. A lot :) I even re-read it a few times... cause I skim things and I thought I should probably make sure I read all of it.
ReplyDeletebut mostly I wanted to say, "Ohh! So *that's* what you wrote on your hand! I was wondering... but thankfully I forgot about it pretty quick. Otherwise it woulda bothered me all night."
and I'd like for you to change your layout... cause it's pretty much Spring and your layout is Fall. and it bothers me a little. Okay, actually a lot...
By the way, I think it's weird that you have to approve the comments. A weird thought came into my head when it said you had to approve it, but then I lost it or something.
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That was fast! You're the sweetest :)
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