Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Prayer 20 - For a sister in Crisis -- Asking for prayer.

   Do you ask for prayer? 

Sometimes our pride gets in the way -- well, it probably gets in the way more often than we really realize.

I think it is easier to  sometimes think our request is not that big of a deal.
I think it can get easy to think that "they will think I am too needy".
I think the enemy is the one who deters out thoughts and casts doubt within our ears and so we feel we are not worthy to ask for prayer.
I also think the enemy is the biggest obstacle  -- he is the one that helps us think we shouldn't ask ---

---Or it is too private to ask for help.

Often, we may feel like we make the same request over and over.

Or maybe, you spend a lot of time praying for others and little for yourself.  Perhaps you feel that is a bit arrogant to seek prayer for yourself.

As you read my blogs - you know and have heard me state that sometimes, all I can do is pray in my prayer language.

 My words are few and I am tired of praying and trying to think of the words to say ---
------praise God I can come to Him with full authority and confidence that He hears my heart and my head and I don't have to worry that Satan hears it  -- as he can't.    Our prayer language goes straight to our Father.  It is a heavenly language -- therefore, Satan can't understand it.    That does give me peace.


On Sunday, I had a BIG request.  I went to God in my quiet time and at church but I wanted to seek a pal and I did not.  I felt like..."I have asked them for prayer on this subject before -- I don't want to bother them".  

I knew that was pride and the enemy getting in the way.  But, I was so angry about a particular subject/prayer request that I literally went to bed crying.

Silent crying is ---always -- not good.
So this AM - I awoke  -- upset - not good.  And when one asked how I was --
--what did I reply??    "I am fine"  -- "All good". 



It's one of those days.  I did work this out with the Lord - as the day progressed. Meanwhile I snapped at a few and felt the entire world needed to be nice to me.

 As I write this -- I know, I will seek the forgiveness I need to  -- and build that armor back up on my self.

As I edit this now -- I did.  

I  let the enemy's arrow pierce   my shield.  And I got mad at God --

I praise God that I realized this in a matter of a 1/2 of a day -- and not brew or fuss for days and even a week -- but, the enemy does not stop.


I blog this today -- just as a reminder ---

It is OK to seek counsel and ask for prayer -- even if you feel it is the "upteenth" time!
It is OK to seek a prayer warrior for a prayer request that was showing victory but has not gotten bent out of shape again.

It's OK.

It's Just OK.

This verse brought comfort to me and as I confessed and sought God for forgiveness for being mad at Him.... peace returned.  Quickly.


Today's prayer -- simply READ Chapter 8 of Romans.  And ask Jesus to intercede. In Jesus Name.   


Life Through the Spirit

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you[a] free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life[d] because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of[e] his Spirit who lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,[g] Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[j]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

AMEN! 


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