Prayer

I think if we are all honest

we have at least one or two

relentless prayers

that are taking far too long to be answered

with a "yes".

The waiting stretches into one tomorrow after another.

It's a soul-kind-of-laborious waiting...

 discouraging.

But I keep praying.

Sometimes I pray boldly,

with great anticipation

for what I am convinced one day

my eyes will behold.

Sometimes I pray desperately...

"Oh God...please...I beg you..."

And sometimes

like last evening

I pray humbly

for I am aware once again

of the vast chasm between

my ways

and His ways

my thoughts

and His thoughts

Janet Thompson was reminded of this in 

Tiegreen's, "One Year Walk with God" devotional.  

It was a discussion of Isaiah 50:2

"Was my arm too short to ransom you?

Do I lack the strength to rescue you?"

"The comment was, 'If you've ever maintained hope

when problems were solvable and then given up hope

when they are not, 

you have forgotten the God of the impossible.

Your situation does not scare Him.

He is not desperately trying to figure it out.

He takes great pleasure in bursting into an impossible situation

with an answer no one had ever thought of...

He looks for faith so that when He bursts in,

He will be recognized.

It must be genuine faith, 

persistent faith,

 and bold faith."

I want to have that kind of faith

the kind the recognizes Him

when He bursts in!

"Pray in the Spirit 

at all times

and on every occasion.

Stay alert

and be persistent in your prayers."

--Ephesians 6:18 NLT