when he walked in the door just minutes before our english bible study began i knew it. i knew it as clearly as if His voice spoke it audibly to me.
my God hears my prayers.
there before me was my answer. i had prayed and begged God for all the students...to bring those He wanted there, and to stand in the way of any barriers or hindrances that would keep them from coming to hear His truth. but in all my asking and crying out to Him i had one specific request...that this one student would come even though the friends he usually comes with had already told us they couldn't come this week - that he would have the courage to come anyway; that he would want to hear the truth so much that he wouldn't be able to stay away.
tonight at bible study i saw God once again take my plans and my ideas and totally rearrange and change them up. i'm coming to expect that. many prayers i saw answered and praised Him. others i am still trusting Him with...still waiting to see how He will show Himself strong and bring Himself glory. but of all the requests i have made of Him, He let me see the answer to this one i for which i particularly asked Him. i am comforted that whether or not i can see His reasoning and His purposes for bringing some and not others, He DOES hear. He didn't have to, but He showed me again, when one student walked through the door...to hear the message that God is stretching out His hand with mercy and grace for sinners who cannot make a way to Him on their own...
do i have the faith to ask Him for more???
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