I spent last night and this morning at our church for Watch Week. It is a time of 24/7 prayer. I met with some sweet ladies both times that are a part of my Bible Studies. Such a sweet time of prayer for and with my sisters in Christ. We laughed and we prayed and we shared stories. There is something so healing about a time of pure transparency before the Lord with our friends. Good for the soul.
I had an opportunity to pray for each of my children during this time too. There is a mission grid on one of the walls with the names of those serving here and abroad. As I was looking over the wall, I was caught off guard by my sweet daughter's new name! And I got to read the notes left for them there. And then I got to pray for my daughter and my son-in-law's ministry and marriage. It overwhelmed me.
Then I moved to a station where you prayed for someone and then lit a candle representing your prayer and the person. As I prayed for the middle one and all the other students who are hearing from God this week in downtown Atlanta, God reminded me of His hand on her life. I lit the candle and watched the flame. The flame flickered and blew to the side several times. I thought it was going to go out but then it just stood straight up and shined brightly against the darkness of the room. God whispered in my ear: "Nothing can extinguish the flame that I lit." My heart was blessed and overwhelmed.
This morning some of the sweet ladies that I was praying with not only attend my Bible Study but they are leaders in our student ministry. They prayed for the little one. They prayed for her heart. For her leadership. For protection. For her witness and her testimony. They covered her with a sweet aroma and lifted her to the Throne Room of Grace. Again. Overwhelmed.
One of the themes at Passion this week is that God can do immeasurably more than we can ask or even imagine. And He can. It is in His Word and it is a promise. And today I choose to let that promise seek in to my very being as a mother. He will do immeasurably more in their lives than I can even put words to or imagine in my own finite mind. Jesus loves them. This I know. For the Bible tells me so. And I am still overwhelmed...
Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us...
Ephesians 3:20
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