GOD, Amari & I
I know I’m not the only parent who dreads the few weeks leading up to their child’s birthday!
Like many parents we don’t mind the long list that we may get, but it’s the CONSTANT nagging, reminding, pestering that comes with the list. MERCY!
3 weeks ago I asked the yearly question “Amari what would you like for your birthday?” Thankfully my son is quite a content child so his birthday demands are usually pretty small and attainable. “Just some legos, some Lego people and a new game for my Nintendo switch.” Amari replied, I said okay and left it as that.
For the next 3 weeks after that, Amari’s theme song has become “Mommy can I get the super Mario oddesy game for my birthday please?” A theme song that I DREADED to listen to, a theme song that I have got sooo tired of hearing morning noon and night.
Why? Because I’ve already taken care of it. From he made his request I started searching the internet, making my orders and hiding things as the post man delivered, but he didn’t know that, so he did whatany child would do and kept asking. MERCY
The sabbath before his birthday, we were listening to a children Bible program when a devotional based on the parable of the persistent friend in Luke 11 5-18 began playing. In my head I thought to myself at a time like this, with him constantly asking for this blasted Game this parable comes on.
So the devotional started to reenact the parable and for those of you who are not familiar with the parable it’s about a person who went to their friends house at night because he needed 3 loaves of bread. The friend told him repeatedly that he was not coming out of bed, at that time of the night to give him bread. However we that didn’t cause him to give up and walk away. NOPE instead he kept asking him for the bread. The parable stated that it wasn’t because of their friendship that he gave him the bread but more because they that the friend was persistent in his request.
When my son heard this his eyes lit up and said “mommy see the Bible said I must keep asking, like that friend. The bible said I must seek and I will find, knock and the door will be opened onto you ask and it will be given . So if I keep asking you for this game you will have to buy it for me because you follow the bible right mommy”
In my head I rolled my eyes so hard, because he now found a biblical reason why it was okay to ask me so many times for something that I already took care off, which he didn’t know about.
How many of us are like amari with God? Constantly asking without trusting and believing that what we have asked for will be given to us or that we will get an answer with?
I am like that! This week I have been plagued with anxiety over a situation with my Education, a situation in which I don’t know if I will even continue on in my course. Because of that I have been persistently praying, persistently “nagging” God, reminding Him that this issue is bothering me and it’s out of my hands, begging Him to do something as I am helpless. What I forgot is that when we go to God with anything, 1 He already knows what we are going to approach Him
With and 2 He answers us upon approach.
What has happened this week has allowed me to take two things from it:-
Persistently pray about the things that are bothering you, things that are a stress, things you need doing but you can’t seem to budge, your husband, your wife, your children, your education, your books.
God has already sorted our prayer requests! We only see the prayer that we pray and nothing else. We are unable to see the spiritual world what happens in that realm when we pray. Even though prayer connects us with God, as our prayer leaves our mouth& heart it is already answered
Trust that God Has got us covered
Are we just praying one time and leaving it? Or are we petioning, persistently praying to God, over our; troubled children, dysfunctional homes, broken finances, stagnant business, Things causing delays in areas of our lives and general things that we need and even want ?
As you go through this week I want you to remember that your petitions are heard, however know that; it’s okay to be like the friend in the parable, be persistent in your prayer request, be like Daniel who prayed earnestly for 21 days until the angel came and delivered the answer to his prayer, be like Jacob who didn’t stop wrestling with Jesus until he got his blessing.
Happy Monday
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