Turning It Over To God
As you can see, I’m still working through the Mark 11:24 thing. “Believe you have received it and it shall be yours.”
We can easily let our obsessions, worries and wants to take over our prayer life. It is easy to fall in the rut of asking the same thing every day. I have heard it said that once you plant the row of seeds, you don’t want to keep digging the row up every day, or the crop won’t grow. And so it is with our prayers (sow it is with our prayers?…)
How do we turn it over to God? How do we “believe we have received it”?
I am finding this requires a conversational style of prayer. Not a “drive by”, as I do on many busy mornings. “Hey God, thanks for the day…got to run…bye”.
Conversational prayer takes some time, and as with any conversation it goes both ways. So get quiet, invite God to be with you in this moment, feel the presence of God, listen for his voice. Then at this point I am letting my request be made known to God, and letting him know that I place it lovingly in his hands.
Now is the time to begin thinking of it as done. I think this is the place in time that I have to transition my thinking and feelings where I believe my prayer has been answered. And this is where we need to find that unwaivering faith. If we can get that faith right down into our very souls, we can “believe we have received it”, even if we can’t see it right this second, we walk by faith and not by sight.
Blessings to you all this weekend, and may you have the faith that moves mountains.
Newsong
