24/7 Prayer at Central
I spent some time praying at the Gilbert campus tonight for this year’s 24/7 prayer event at Central. It was a great time and very spiritually refreshing. In one station, people could write thoughts onto a white board. I took a picture of one comment that stood out to me.
As I sat and stared at these three sentences, I suddenly remembered two years ago when I was doing the same exact thing. I was at a 24/7 prayer station, this time it was a station setup with a punching bag. In that station, we were encouraged to write something down that we were frustrated with God about. At that point in our life, Michelle and I had been trying to get pregnant for about a year. I couldn’t understand why we couldn’t start a family, especially when I felt that God was the one who had given us such a desire to have one. I wrote my complaint on a piece of paper and left it there and walked away from that night unresolved.
Flash forward to tonight. I sat there and remembered the frustration I had then when I felt that God was silent, and how different that seems to me now as we are currently pregnant with our second child. God is still listening, and prayer really does matter. So wherever your journey with God is right now, don’t give up on Him. He may have an answer for you that you can’t see coming.
Tags: Church, Family, Spirituality
November 14th, 2009 at 2:02 AM
Great post and reminder! Even when God is silent, He’s still very much on the throne with a plan!
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November 14th, 2009 at 7:09 AM
Those are lyrics to a Barlow Girl song called “I Believe in Love”. Its a really beautiful song and I remember it was released around the time my son was born, two months premature, and had an array of developmental and physical handicaps. I listened to it a lot during my worship time in those days. When you hear it in its full context, its even more powerful.
The complete lyrics are:
How long will my prayers seem unanswered?
Is there still faith in me to reach the end?
I’m feeling doubt I’m losing faith
But giving up would cost me everything
So I’ll stand in the pain and the silence
And I’ll speak to the dark night
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it
And I believe in God even when He is silent
And I……I believe
Though I can’t see my stories ending
That doesn’t mean the dark night has no end
It’s only here that I find faith
And learn to trust the one who writes my days
So I’ll stand in the pain and silence
And I’ll speak to the dark night
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it
And I believe in God even when He is silent
And I……I believe
No dark can consume Light
No death greater than this life
We are not forgotten
Hope is found when we say…..
Even when He is silent
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it
And I believe in God even when He is silent
And I……I believe
November 14th, 2009 at 7:34 PM
It is amazing to look back at different times and reflect on what you were thinking at a specific time. And then after time passes, you see thoses times in a very different light and get a glimpse at what God was seeing and doing.