We hustled through the blur of lights, our cargo van bustling through a maze of Houston traffic. We were laden heavy that night, not just with 11 weary bodies but laden with broken hearts, shattered childhoods and far more problems then we had solutions. I wondered how we would ever safely arrive anywhere with 9 mended hearts and 9 awakened spirits; what could possibly carry all those broken pieces. There is no vehicle capable nor Mama equipped to do the unimaginable. The laundry list of things broken that needed to be fixed ran constantly through my mind, spinning and churning far faster then I could control ~ sometimes I want to drop off this spinning wheel of broken hearts but then who will lead them to their Father? I stayed on motion sick, dizzy and asked for peace ~ Peace to quiet the spinning, an Answer to dim the dizzy blurring lights.
I awoke the next morning with the lingering ache in my head and dizzy spin in my mind and He patiently beckoned me with a promise to slow the spin and to dull the ache, the ache in my head and the ache buried deep within my heart.
I poured a cup of hot tea and I opened my Bible (a slight sliver of heaven to bless my day) and He whispered Peace to a spinning Mama and I felt the whirl of the hurt and the rush of the needs slow and finally cease altogether.
Matthew 21:22 ~ "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
He simply said, "List them, believe for them and wait expectantly and joyfully to receive them."
List ~ Believe ~ Receive
All the broken hearts, all the sin and painful relationships, lost innocence and sickness, ALL the problems we face in one day? Let alone a week, a month, a year, a lifetime? Just list them, believe for them and then receive them. It simply cannot be that simple.
What about all the worrying and problem solving I do? What about researching and reworking? And then of course there is the complaining and the incessant talking I choose to do about them? What about all of these entirely flesh driven and sinful responses I have to our problems? What am I to do with those?
"Crucify them."
God just cleared some serious time in my daily schedule.
In my newly found free time I cracked open my journal and began to write, to list in prayer, believing for the Answer from on high to literally show up ~ I guess the spiritual term would be His manifest presence ~ but I have to say in an entirely layman's terms way ~ the Answer just shows up! He is standing on my doorstep with His bags in His hands and He is so excited to move in and start to fix all that the world and I have broken. His manifest presence just walked through the front door and put his feet up on the coffee table (figure of speech since we do not own a coffee table, remember, we simplified) and He is busily picking up all the little pieces of our shattered hearts and fragmented family and building something new, a new creation.
I just simply needed to ask and then believe and then I joyfully receive.
It simply is that simple.
What are you worried about? What is shattered in your life, in your spirit? What has your world cracked in two? What makes your world spin and your eyes grow dizzy with the blur and the whirl of the sickening spinning?
"And whatever things you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive." Matthew 21:22
Yes, it really is that simple.
You do not need another book or blog, or seminar or retreat, you do not need another coffee break with friends to lament over the plight of your life ~ you simply need to bring your problems to the Answer, believe in the Answer and then wait like a giddy child, wide eyed and bubbling over with joy at the Answer that is to come.
At this point if I was a fabulous blogger I would insert a lovely template here for you to write all of your woes on flower trimmed paper but let's be straight ~ I am not a fabulous blogger, I have no idea how to create a template laid with lovely flowers and if the truth be told (which I love to do) you do not need a template ~ you just need to list them in whatever fashion the Holy Spirit leads you to. You may scribble them in the margins of your Bible or in your journal or maybe on a coffee stained Starbucks napkin ~ where is irrelevant, all that He asks is that we ask Him, and believe in Him and then expect Him to answer.
No more worrying, no more problem solving, no more complaining or grumbling, no more wasted coffee hours lamenting over our miserable selves - just a single minded focus on the Answer and all the problems lose their dizzying effect and the dull aches in our heads give rise to grateful minds and the sinking pit in your stomach gives way to the belly laugh of those who know ~ those who know their Answer.
As the swirling circumstances of life seem to spin harder and faster our Answer seems to be simplifying the journey day by day. The Answer runs sound and true through our days ~ He races to us in our spinning haze and simply answers so that we may enjoy the ride.
List them ~ Believe for them ~ and then Receive
I awoke the next morning with the lingering ache in my head and dizzy spin in my mind and He patiently beckoned me with a promise to slow the spin and to dull the ache, the ache in my head and the ache buried deep within my heart.
I poured a cup of hot tea and I opened my Bible (a slight sliver of heaven to bless my day) and He whispered Peace to a spinning Mama and I felt the whirl of the hurt and the rush of the needs slow and finally cease altogether.
Matthew 21:22 ~ "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
He simply said, "List them, believe for them and wait expectantly and joyfully to receive them."
List ~ Believe ~ Receive
All the broken hearts, all the sin and painful relationships, lost innocence and sickness, ALL the problems we face in one day? Let alone a week, a month, a year, a lifetime? Just list them, believe for them and then receive them. It simply cannot be that simple.
What about all the worrying and problem solving I do? What about researching and reworking? And then of course there is the complaining and the incessant talking I choose to do about them? What about all of these entirely flesh driven and sinful responses I have to our problems? What am I to do with those?
"Crucify them."
God just cleared some serious time in my daily schedule.
In my newly found free time I cracked open my journal and began to write, to list in prayer, believing for the Answer from on high to literally show up ~ I guess the spiritual term would be His manifest presence ~ but I have to say in an entirely layman's terms way ~ the Answer just shows up! He is standing on my doorstep with His bags in His hands and He is so excited to move in and start to fix all that the world and I have broken. His manifest presence just walked through the front door and put his feet up on the coffee table (figure of speech since we do not own a coffee table, remember, we simplified) and He is busily picking up all the little pieces of our shattered hearts and fragmented family and building something new, a new creation.
I just simply needed to ask and then believe and then I joyfully receive.
It simply is that simple.
What are you worried about? What is shattered in your life, in your spirit? What has your world cracked in two? What makes your world spin and your eyes grow dizzy with the blur and the whirl of the sickening spinning?
"And whatever things you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive." Matthew 21:22
Yes, it really is that simple.
You do not need another book or blog, or seminar or retreat, you do not need another coffee break with friends to lament over the plight of your life ~ you simply need to bring your problems to the Answer, believe in the Answer and then wait like a giddy child, wide eyed and bubbling over with joy at the Answer that is to come.
At this point if I was a fabulous blogger I would insert a lovely template here for you to write all of your woes on flower trimmed paper but let's be straight ~ I am not a fabulous blogger, I have no idea how to create a template laid with lovely flowers and if the truth be told (which I love to do) you do not need a template ~ you just need to list them in whatever fashion the Holy Spirit leads you to. You may scribble them in the margins of your Bible or in your journal or maybe on a coffee stained Starbucks napkin ~ where is irrelevant, all that He asks is that we ask Him, and believe in Him and then expect Him to answer.
No more worrying, no more problem solving, no more complaining or grumbling, no more wasted coffee hours lamenting over our miserable selves - just a single minded focus on the Answer and all the problems lose their dizzying effect and the dull aches in our heads give rise to grateful minds and the sinking pit in your stomach gives way to the belly laugh of those who know ~ those who know their Answer.
As the swirling circumstances of life seem to spin harder and faster our Answer seems to be simplifying the journey day by day. The Answer runs sound and true through our days ~ He races to us in our spinning haze and simply answers so that we may enjoy the ride.
List them ~ Believe for them ~ and then Receive
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