Prayer has been an incredibly powerful toward in this spiritual battle! I have asked for and covered your prayers. I have seen them answered. Although we are in a battle for Alan's life, the ultimate battle is not that. It is whether Satan or God will rule our hearts and our minds daily. I posted previously about the Armor of God. Prayer is the biggest part of the battle. It aligns our hearts with His mind. Christ goes before us into the waging war.
My devotional this morning said this, "Paul tells us to pray on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers, because he knew and firmly believed that prayer is the channel that God uses to activate our spiritual armor as we go into battle. Prayer should always be our first response."
Ephesians 6:18 says - “Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.”
James 4:6-7 says - “And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Humble yourself - meaning PRAY. A proud person does pray, truly pray. I know when I am prideful I tend to go through the motions of prayer but not truly pray. Have you ever experienced that? Where you are saying the words, maybe even being focused on others but not having any passion or emotion at all behind it.
This last 2 years my prayer life has changed majorly! My heart is practically begging and pleading with the Lord. And it's not just a morning prayer or a mealtime prayer or even my prayers before bed. It's a cry of my heart to my Savior. That type of prayer is powerful! And knowing others are praying for you with the same fervent heart, WOW!
At one point in this journey, I asked my prayer warriors for unity in a certain decision. I knew our mindset for this entire battle was hinging on how we were in this one situation. We had to go into it 100% united. It took 5 days! 5 long hard days! But since then we have not had a moment of disunity. Now that's not to say we haven't given each other our opposing thoughts or opinions. That's not to say we haven't disagreed. But we have not been OPPOSING each other. We have not be lacking in unity.
I told my ladies that I understand how hard Cancer is on marriages. I see why so many couples going through our journey or that of having a child with cancer end up divorced. That's why praying for and seeking unity is so important. The power of prayer is incredible!
As a wife of almost 16 years, I've read a lot about prayer over our marriage. The Power of a Praying Wife and the like are all things a "good, Christian wife" reads, right? Well, this time and this phase has transformed my heart, my sensitivity to how I am praying. It is and should always be our FIRST response, not our last resort or monotonous respsonse. And one of humble, fervent passion!
Prayer Requests for Our Family:
- Safe travel as we head to Dallas area and Lake Texoma to see family this weekend
- Girls to have a fabulous time in Frisco this week with Charlie and Dee
- Continued clear path for decisions we are making
- Peace and Unity in our 4 family
- Wisdom for Alan on when to rest, slow down, speed up, fight harder, let me fight. All of it.
- Healing
- Transition back into the school year
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