I am posting my weekend thought a day early since I’ll be quite drugged this weekend. They actually moved my gall bladder surgery to happen at noon 9:30 am Friday (Central Time) instead of the early morning slot I had before. So…prayers are appreciated. For guiding my incredibly young surgeon’s hands, and that my body won’t freak out that it is missing an organ. This week hasn’t been too bad in the pain department up until last night, when I lost some of my self control. I took in about 18g of fat instead of 10g for the day and paid the uncomfortable consequences at bed time.
As far as the weekend thought…
WHY PRAY?
Have a great weekend, and thanks for your prayers. I’ll have Chris update after we get home later Friday.
Hi Anne,
greetings from Bonnie (rainy) Scotland. I’ll be praying for you tomorrow and for Chris too as he waits. Glad its getting sorted, then you can look forward to your next visit to Edinburgh!
Love, Rosemary
“Why pray?”
Because we can change the world from our knees through prayer. I love this quote:
“I must learn to move men through God by prayer alone.”
-Hudson Taylor
I pray all goes well in your surgery…and recovery.
Praying all goes well tomorrow and thereafter.
Why pray? Because it has the power to change everything.
BUT does prayer really change anything? Doesn’t GOD already know what is going to happen?
Life is a training field. The war is won. God CAN limit himself because the end is established…won.
1. Stories in the OT prove that we can change the heart and mind of God for a season, or except our families and ourselves from his wrath.
2. Because God commands us to pray. God rewards obedience.
3. Because prayer is relationship with God. To have him know my heart in a real way is what he means by “worshipping in spirit and in truth”. If we want to know God and hear him, and be used, we must learn to stay in communication with him.
4. It’s mind comforting, heart soothing, and the best meditation known to man. It reminds us to center back to truth when we are anxious, confused, and cannot “figure life out”. It assures us of his presence, and invites him to make himself known to us when nothing else makes sense.
5. It makes us more “efficient” by doing only things he wants us doing.
6. It helps us to think on what is good and pleasant and lovely and full of good report, as scripture says, so that we are not constantly depressed by the sin of the world. We can learn to live in thanksgiving instead.
7. Jesus prayed. (Now, why did Jesus had to pray, when he was essentially praying to Himself? This is a good question. Even He longed for communion-fellowship with the Father that much. Even He needed directives for the day. Even He did nothing unless he saw the Father doing it first. He limited himself by what He saw the Father doing. Is that incredible?
Jesus limited himself. He didn’t just get up and say, “I think I’ll go out and “just do it” today. Or “Be the best that I can be”. Obedience and servanthood to the Father was his starting point for the day. Not just serving people in general, but walking in the Father’s time frame for servanthood.
Sorry this has gotten long, but it just strikes me more and more that I have to learn to listen more in prayer to have a purposeful and effective life.
Thanks for the real estate! (open to opinions on it)
Praying for your surgery and recovery. You are in His hands. He’ll make you an overcomer, no matter what you face. Take heart.
why not?
Good response Brian. I can’t come up with something better than that.
hale yeah took my comment, but I was also thinking of a lessong from church a few weeks ago….Luke 11:5-13 topic was “Being Good At Being Annoying” If we keep asking and keep asking, honestly asking with the purest of intentions, He will be faithful to us. With that in mind, I was reading in Matthew 2 where Joseph kept being warned by an angel about Harod wanting to kill Jesus. He went by “faith” to where God wanted him to go, right? My final point, once we have been annoying, we need to live by faith that all will be done, right? OK, well, it may not be that simple, but that’s what I was thinking at the moment. I will be praying tomorrow around mid-day for you. I have a job interview around the same time…….in His love
God does allow us to intercede on behalf on someone else and chage his mind. Abraham did it in Genesis 18. God allowed Abraham to chang his mind more than once.
Hey Nobody,
Perhaps prayer isn’t about changing God, but changing us…
love you,
shari
I think CS Lewis said this
“Praying doesnt change God, it changes us”
That’s a good reason.
hi, anne! i just want to say that i have sent a prayer to the Divine hoping that everything will be fine and that you’ll be able to fully recover.
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Why not? That’s funny!
I think some people say, “No.” because they have prayed and bad things in life still happened to them?
I’ll let ya’ll deal with that. I’ve already taken my share of real estate rambling.
Bye bye bladdy!
praying for a safe surery and quick recovery Anne.
I pray to communicate and connect with the only person who makes sense in and of my life.
Praying for you this morning.
praying for you.
mag
lifting you up for a quick recovery.