Prayer
Prayer is the strongest weapon given to man kind. We have the greatest gift in prayer that through Jesus we can reach out to our heavenly father and thank him and talk to him and ask him for things that we need.
I cannot tell you how grateful I am to everyone who has been praying for my Mom while she has been in the hospital and having surgery. They ended up giving her too much pain medication while she was in the recovery room and slowed her breathing down so that it was really dangerous to her well being. She at one time was breathing 4 times per minute. She scared us pretty bad yesterday.
THEN this morning I rolled into her hospital room at seven thirty to find her up, talking, getting dressed and ready to go home, and watching GMA with her coffee just like nothing had ever happened! It was truly amazing at the difference. Actually unbelievable. I KNOW that this is because of all the prayers that maybe even you reading this said for her. It was just so wonderful to see God work through that hard time.
I had a friend tell me yesterday that mine and my Nana’s prayers would have to be enough because she thought that her prayers weren’t getting through. She has been having a very hard time financially lately, and has overall been very depressed. It made me so sad that she thought that God wasn’t hearing her calls to him. As a Christian, you have to leave the deception that the world has so implanted in us all that God causes bad things. We as Christians serve a mighty and wonderfully GOOD God who does NOTHING bad. We lead ourselves to bad. We have turned this world into something bad. You hear so often “How could God do this to me?” or “How could God let this happen?”- you have to know that God ONLY does good. As humans, we can’t see the whole picture. We see a very limited amount of what everything does to us or for us and not what God has intended for every detail in the biggest picture.
We all have to work to know and believe that everything God does is good. God is good and no bad comes from him. I’m praying that my friend will see that even though some bad things are happening to her and her family now, God has a bigger picture intended and is working for the good in her life.
I am so thankful that God has blessed me as much as he has, and that he has kept my Mom in his loving and so capable hands as she’s had this surgery. :)
