Prayer

My morning devotions always open up a window of thinking for me and as I was praying this morning, I started to really think about PRAYER...



Have you prayed lately? What does prayer mean to you? Do you believe in the power of prayer?



I read a book called "The Power of a Praying Wife" by Stormie Omartian... It is a book written to address a wife whose husband is not yet a believer.



What I learned during my journey of reading that book was this:



Prayer for any purpose creates a change in YOU! Praying for someone else changes YOU and YOUR interaction with that person and with others...



Prayer opens your heart to communion with God and that communion creates change, peace, love and grace in YOU...



Have you ever prayed for something to see it not granted? Have you ever wondered why, felt forgotten, abandoned or overlooked? I have...



As time goes by, some of the reasons those prayers weren't answered in MY way have been revealed quite clearly to me - because God had a different plan for me and it has always proven to be a better plan!



Some of those prayers, I still don't understand the outcome... but I have peace in knowing that God's will has been done - and I have to tell you - with some of those prayers, its taken me years to accept that and come to terms with that.



What happened is that I saw God at work in my life in such a POWERFUL way, I knew for CERTAIN, that He is working all things for good for me - in HIS way...



So if I don't understand why my Dad wasn't healed and restored and why he had to go - I now have peace because I know it was God's will... I know my Dad is at peace!



So if I don't understand why so much turmoil has developed in my industry of Real Estate and why so much turmoil has since come to light in the entire economy - I now understand that sometimes, God brings us to the bottom so that we can truly open our eyes and hearts and see Him - and SEEK HIM, so that He can raise us up...



If you don't believe that read through the Scriptures - its happened time and time again!!!



My husband and I often have an discussion/argument (smile - to him its a discussion, for me its an argument) about prayer and faith. The thing is he is not a committed Christian, but he does believe in God!

But he often questions how I can believe that its God working a miracle in my life that made something work out for me when someone else didn't get their prayer answered - was God not listening to them? Or was it God's will that this person's child was healed and that other person's wasn't?



Now if you know my husband, you'll know that I don't have the scriptural foundation to answer his questions - if you knew my husband, you'd understand why I needed to read "The Power of a Praying Wife"!!! (SMILE)...



No, seriously - I usually get frustrated when we have that discussion - I guess, because I can't convince him of what is so true and clear to ME but he can't see... But what I need to do most when we have that discussion is to PRAY...



Prayer can change lives - it can change yours and it can change the lives of others - Don't believe me?

Try it.... Invest in Prayer today!