Sometimes the most important prayer is for the wisdom / guidance to know if, by some weird call, you ARE supposed to be the one to do something. I suspect that we all tend to start from “What a shame… Hope somebody does something about that..” and never have the … guts(?) to ask that hard question, of ourselves or of God.
Agreed. I have a tendency to react sometimes especially with children rather than discerning. Often God has someone in mind and I was just suppose to notice and pray. He works in my ordinary daily activities so sometimes it happens so naturally I cannot tell what is me and what is Him. Maybe that is prayer without ceasing. 🙂 Hard question for me is “is there a ministry of the presence?” Scripture often talks about descent or entering into Spirit. God is always present but sometimes He is actively working The more I study, the more I become more faithful in my devotions but most of all the more I listen and seek Him the harder it is for me to discern what is me and what is Him. 🙂 If it is so for me, then there are others and what we interpret as a problem may very well be God’s work. LOL!
February 19, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I believe that is what we have prayer for–in those cases that you cannot directly do anything or you are not the one called to do it.
February 19, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Sometimes the most important prayer is for the wisdom / guidance to know if, by some weird call, you ARE supposed to be the one to do something. I suspect that we all tend to start from “What a shame… Hope somebody does something about that..” and never have the … guts(?) to ask that hard question, of ourselves or of God.
February 20, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Agreed. I have a tendency to react sometimes especially with children rather than discerning. Often God has someone in mind and I was just suppose to notice and pray. He works in my ordinary daily activities so sometimes it happens so naturally I cannot tell what is me and what is Him. Maybe that is prayer without ceasing. 🙂 Hard question for me is “is there a ministry of the presence?” Scripture often talks about descent or entering into Spirit. God is always present but sometimes He is actively working The more I study, the more I become more faithful in my devotions but most of all the more I listen and seek Him the harder it is for me to discern what is me and what is Him. 🙂 If it is so for me, then there are others and what we interpret as a problem may very well be God’s work. LOL!