A Tale of Three Ladies.......

Last night, I was laying in bed in the dark, just pondering three ladies in particular. I won't be mentioning names, but all three were part of my motivation to pray. It began with just a simple prayer and them stemmed into a deep cry to God for them. As I laid there with tears streaming down my eyes, all I could do was pray for God's will in their lives. Two ladies in particular were prayers of mercy. One was the prayer of God's will.

The first lady. She is younger than me by 10 years. She's a bright girl really but hasn't always made the brightest decisions in life. She was born the youngest of her brothers and sisters and probably felt like she was brought up lonely or as an only child practically. She was brought up in the faith but never truly stuck to it. She's like a wave that goes back and forth on the shore. She didn't grow up poor. If anything she grew up pretty much middle class average and didn't see much struggle. She knows about the Lord, yet still chooses the low road. She tends to live in the grey areas. Never really pushing herself to stand up for what she knows is the truth. I cried out for mercy and also prayed that

Isn't God funny?

This 40 long days is nearing its final weeks. I've come from being on fire and full of zeal and passion to a low place of dryness and quietness. So, today I went to the Song of Solomon class that I attend each week....and the Lord spoke directly to me over and over. It was pretty amusing at times. I had a moment where the teacher looks right at me while talking about John 4 which says "Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The funny thing is that during my prayer time today (which was full of tearful pitty parties galore), I kept saying "Lord when is it my turn? When is my harvest? What about me?" That isn't vain at all (said sarcastically). I was like,

My prayer books

I love these books. My mom gave them to me and Ralph a few years back when we were really getting into prayer and intercession. They are like gems. They have lists of different subjects and written out prayers with scriptures for you to pray. I like them because they help you along the way with prayer language. Sometimes I go blank and say "Lord I don't even know what to pray for this situation" and these books are like (excuse the expression) "how to pray for dummies"

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Numbers in my prayer time

I went to the prayers about debts...and lo and behold...there it is...the number 11

Psalm 119

Ok, normally I have my little prayer journal list and go through each page praying for certain things, individuals and situations. But today I took my prayer books out called Prayers That Avail Much (which I have had sitting on a book shelf for God knows how long) and decided to pray a couple of prayers from each book. While doing that, I ran into a few numbers that made me sort of giggle mid way through my prayers.