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Big Prayers

 4 Things to Practice while You are in Your Waiting Season

 

1.       Speak truth about yourself and God

2.       Love people for who they are and not who you wish they were

3.       Pray BIG prayers

4.       Read, believe, and obey God’s Word

 

The above isn’t Scripture, though you’ll find them consistent with Scripture. I’ve spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out what to write about from Scripture for this blog, and I’m not finding anything that inspires comment. The longer I wait, the worse the struggle becomes and the worse my thinking gets. How can I, as a Christian, not have so much to write about what I find in Scripture that there’s ever any lack? How can I, as a Christian, not find it next to impossible to keep myself from singing His praises. It’s not even that I’m going through hard times. There are no traumas, there just isn’t any inspiration.

Proverbs 31 Ministries posted this little bit of wisdom. As I’ve waited all day for inspiration, and as I’m waiting for the weather to warm up enough so I can prep and plant my garden, and then I’ll be waiting for my plants to grow, I’m typically doing all the wrong things – I turn negative on myself, and therefore negative on God (Why would He bother to help me? Etc.) If I prayed big prayers before, they shrivel and dry up. And the idea of believing and obeying God’s Word – well, I’m trying, but obeying seems to involve standing around, doing nothing – and I’m bored. If I’m going to obey, let me obey in motion! If nothing else, that gives me the illusion of control. (Ouch!)

The garden isn’t the only place of waiting. My writing hasn’t been cooperating over the past couple of weeks, and it feels like I’ve been waiting forever for anyone to discover or enjoy my books. In waiting times, I don’t see the use of praying for much of anything, because praying for it is the best way possible to ensure that I won’t receive it!

So, if I were to pray big prayers right now, what would they be?

Learn to dance with God

Lose 30-50 lbs. this summer

Get the roof and back door fixed or replaced ($$$)

My little garden has a BIG harvest – enough to eat/use, preserve, and give away

            Word Fire published, and at least 1000 copies of each book sold.

            There are others, but they go along the same pattern. Except for the first, none of them are really big. It’s sort of like the spider I found on my T-shirt the other night. It’s huge to me, but as spiders go, it was at best medium sized.

            So let’s go to a couple old prayers – that this summer God would bless my socks off. How selfish. That God would show the world what He can do in and through the life of a middle-aged nobody. How egotistical.

            No, the biggest prayers I think I can think of are…

            Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done… and not my will, but Thine be done, oh Lord.

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