“A rural church in the middle of farming country, much like the one many of us attend, had a special service to pray for rain. The drought had hit the area hard and the farmers and community were suffering financially and spiritually. Many people came to the service to pray and as the pastor looked out over the crowd he was encouraged. However, the thing that inspired him most was a little girl sitting in the front pew, holding a bright red umbrella. Everyone had come to pray for rain, but only the little girl believed enough to bring an umbrella.”
I love this story and I was reminded of it while discussing prayer in our small group. One person in our group told us how a lot of the times we go to God in prayer asking for something only to give God an out. We ask for someone to be healed and then say God if that’s your will. Maybe we ask for rain and then say God only if you see fit. Yes God will do what he wants to do. His will is his plan but it’fs not up to us to determine what that plan is exactly. He told us to ask for the things we needs to seek and we shall find to knock and the door shall be open.
Next time you pray say the prayer like you mean it. Pray only for the things that you have faith in. As another once told me “there is really no need in praying for something if you don’t have enough faith to believe in it”. How true that statement is.
God knew what he was talking about when he said that we should come to him as little children. Children do not doubt their father. They know his purpose is to take care of them the best way possible.
In Him,
Joe
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