Ephesians 1:15-19
"16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly,17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdomt and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.t19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him.
Last month, I updated that I was learning so much through this practice, and that is still the case this month! I do not have daily contact with any of my patience peeps any more, but I do have daily contact with God; and through that daily contact I have kept my prayers for my peeps flowing. The more I learn about patience, the more I understand that it's a process. I am not going to achieve it in five minutes, as I had originally hoped. But I will have to work at it, and continue to discover new aspects of it everyday of my life. That's how I have started to feel about my Challenge in Patience. The original challenge will be up next month, but I plan to keep praying and waiting to see the awesome things God has in store for these five people.
The verses I chose this month are as much for me as for the challenge. I want to pray this prayer, and mean every line of it. Have you ever said a prayer, just because you "had" to? I've fallen into that several times through out my challenge. I pray for my peeps purely because it's what I promised to do...not because I MEAN what I'm praying. Six months is a very long time to pray, and not feel like I'm seeing many results, but I can not see what God is doing in a person that I don't have daily contact with, now can I? But I can learn to trust in Him whom I'm praying to.
It's amazing what lessons I've realized are hidden within my "big" lesson. This issue of trust, it's been a big one for me lately, and I see how it's directly related to my patience issues. If I am not trusting in God, how can ANYTHING happen? All of the miracles that I'm waiting to see, they are directly related to my trust in God. I have to learn trust, to accomplish patience. I've written about this before, only I called trust by it's original name (at least in my opinion) of faith. Dictionary.com defines faith as: confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability. The Bible defines faith for us in Hebrews 11:11 "1 Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." So it appears, to me at least, that my trust/faith issue is a big part of my lack of patience.
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