On prayer

We ask you to pray for us a lot.  We give you specific requests and ask that you’d join us in prayer.  Many of you are Christians believing there is a powerful God who hears and answers.  Some of you are not.  Likely all of us at times have doubts.  Does God really hear and does He really answer? 

I read this tonight in Paul Tripp’s book a Shelter in the time of Storm. “Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.  He answers because of who he is.  He answers because of what he is doing. He answers because he loves to see us come, and he loves to provide just the grace for that moment.” 

God is loving and gracious and faithful. He is about his kingdom and his glory. Our little story is a part of his larger story.  And so I ask you to join us in coming before God, recognizing our neediness before him, and I hope that doing so it points us all to him.  I hope that by understanding our little story, we all somehow understand his greater story.

How exactly does our year with Bella, Emma’s surgery or Elsie’s seizures fit into his greater story?  I don’t know.  But they cause me to be needy.  I need Jesus and I need you.  So, once again, thank you.  Thank you for entering our story and praying on our behalf.

Today you can continue to pray that Elsie has another seizure, preferably tomorrow between 7 am and 1 pm. Thank you.