Prayer

Yep Yep, What it is!!!!!

So peep this peoples, about 8 or 9 months ago I took a exam and about a third of the classes tests were lost. And I prayed when it was announced that God allow the test to be found. In the mean time we had to set up another date to take the exam over, that was set for the next week. The morning of the re take (if that's even a word! lol) I was struggling on whether or not my prayers are answered, or even heard at all! I was struggling with my faith and the assurance of my salvation. I cried out to God that morning in despair and asked for help.

As the day went on and I went to go take the exam I just 'knew' that they had found them, which by the grace of God AND answer to prayer they did!!!!! I was overjoyed and encouraged at this which didn't last long. Soon after the enemy rushed in with the doubts: "that was just coincidence, that has nothing to do with your prayers, they would have been found either way yada yada yada." And this dampened my spirit and stifled my joy. Needless to say I was defeated........

Another situation, as I've been walking in and by faith I've struggled with and been attacked with the notion that I'm not 'praying' enough about the stuff I'm doing and it isn't 'God' behind it  and so on. Well as I was reading through my journal from 2009 when I was on a missions trip in Nepal I was praying about the exact stuff I'm doing rght now and I believed God was showing me then what He wanted from me which is what I'm doing now. This was like wow! Because I'd forgotten all about it! I was amazed at seeing what God was showing me years ago and what I prayed then was being rolled out today without me even recognizing it!

Now the fun part!!! As I was reading C.S. Lewis today God spoke to me and ministered to / encouraged me sooo much!!!! The book in reference is Screwtape Letters, it's a book where a high ranking demon is coaching/discipling his nephew an in experienced younger demon on how to tempt/ manipulate and secure the soul of the human he is assigned to. The first passage that hit me reads as follows, ".....he (the human) will probaly continue such crude prayers whatever you do. But you can worry him with the haunting suspicion that the practice is absurd and can have no objective result. Don't forget to use the 'heads I win, tails you lose' argument. If the thing he prys for doesn't happen, then that is no more proof that petitionary prayers don't work; if it does happen he will, ofcourse, be able to see some of the physical causes which led up to it, and therefore it would have happened anyway and thus a granted prayer becomes just as good a proof as a denied one that prayers are ineffective."

This refers to my first story. I was attacked with the argument it would have happened either way, it was a coincidence. So that granted prayer that God providentially set up to happen that specific day I was struggling to encourage and affirm me was used to discourage and defeat me because of the tactics of satan. WHOA!!!!!! Crazy huh?

The second part refers to the second story, " If you tried to explain to him (the human) that men's prayers today are one of the innumerable co ordinates with which the Enemy (referring to God) harmonises the weather of tomorrow........."

This was crazy because my prayers 2 years ago played a part in what is going on now. My prayers then were used by Our Great God to harmonize the weather for today! That is dope!!!!!!!! SO what God did to me/in me with this is affirm some stuff and confirm some stuff. He gave me some insight for future battles and He gave me a incredible confidence and new faith in the power of prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yessir! I'm on my 1 Thessalonians 5:17

Praying without ceasing!

You should be tooo!

God is dope,

Israel