Thank you brothers
My mom is scheduled for the operation to remove the tumor from her brain @ 11:00am, which is about 2 and half hours from the time now (8:30am)
Asking her last night how she was feeling and how she felt towards the operation, she looked at me askance as if it it was a silly question, "Fine", towards today; "I put my trust in the Lord"
Maybe it's me who needs the prayer ... ;-)
Saints, there is something hard to articulate... "Confidence" is such a ... difficult and spurious, almost dangerous construct. Having seen so much of a later sort that is really a disguised presumption ... Unbelief the opposite extremity... Thrown into the mix is the notorious and devilish anxiety, the sister of unbelief...
Tension, seems to be the word upon my lips while;
[i]Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.[/i] 1Pe 5:7
It is interesting to stop and re-read this. To see what it looks like spelled out. To wonder aloud what it appears as or might be read [i]into[/i] it. It smacks of worry. Just wanting to bear all and be open and honest, my foolishness for your benefit! Am thinking across many lines here being of that peculiar mind that tends to process so many things all at once...
Maybe it is just to cast it all out at once, upon God alone while not alone amongst the brethren. This faith that is ours is a most precious thing, that we might value it above everything. If I could somehow express just what profound possibilities there are by way of prayer ...
Everything to this point with my dear mom is, by way of prayer been effectual and has continued to be so. How this cut's across all aspects of matters great and 'small'! It is the Lord who has done all these things, in His way and with the intercession of His children.
What am I trying to say? Have nothing profound, just stark, even surprising to myself ... transparency eking out.
Trusting the Lord? Oh, absolutely.
How about you? In your concerns and matters?
For your family and loved ones?
For those souls the Lord has laid upon you.
For 'revival'
For the backslidden
For the misguided
For the street preacher and the man in the pulpit
For each other
Here
For the prayer requests that come through
For all things
For Gods sake
And His glory
For the pre-eminence of Jesus
And that He might be known in all power and in all truth.
Of all the spiritual gifts available...
This one...
Prayer
The possibilities!
Be everlastingly at it saints.
I need your's and I dare say...
You need mine.
