Immeasurable Power

Prayer has been on my mind a lot lately.  This last Sunday was filled with answers to my prayers.  I haven't felt that alive in a long time. It topped every "high" I've ever felt my entire life. One thing I've always struggled with was prayer.  So often the power of it would be interrupted by my own awkward thoughts of how stupid I felt for "talking to myself."  I say stupid because Sunday was just proof that God pays attention to each of those prayers.  I also can't help but think that I'm also maturing in what I pray for.  I'm that much farther from being the little girl praying for God to give me a pony (even though God could do that if He wanted to lol).  But as I've learned, looking back we'll see that sometimes the prayers we thought weren't answered, weren't because God wasn't paying attention, but because we were praying for things out of God's character and will. As I so often forget, along with maturing in your relationship with God, your prayers will also mature.  There's no irony in 1 Thessalonians 5:17,

Pray without ceasing.


A verse of very few words with a very clear and powerful message. God meant it because if we were honest with ourselves, we know that prayer is always the answer.  There's no point where it isn't appropriate.  In times of joy, sadness, anger, fear, relief... We're armed with the most powerful weapon ever and it's one that no one can take from us.  As I once heard it put, "People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers." Luckily that even applies for ourselves. So despite the current situation, no matter how you feel at the moment, prayer is your best defense. It's the simple act of surrendering it to our amazing God. 


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