I have noticed in life that prayers are an interesting thing, in God seems to find some prayers easy to bring about some are not easy. It is not that anything is difficult for God, but that God has difficulties with people.
God seems odd to me at times, in He answers prayers for new Christians almost immediately. I remember a blonde on television who told Pat Sajak or some night host that she asked God as a child for big boobs, and this woman sure had them.
That is the bizarre thing to me about God, in He answers the most wasteful prayers, as while I did not ask for big boobs, I did waste my first prayer on nonsense........also asked for Wisdom and unlike my thinking it was a "POOF" and you are Solomon, God instead found it His pleasure to teach me the hard way.
Somehow I do not appreciate Wisdom the hard way.
It is a wonder to me really why things I need, things I pray for in God to tell me or show me the place He wills me to be, so things get where I pray for them to be..........God is a God Who is set in stone, won't hear and is off looking at apparently large breasts development on blondes.
Yet He does take 2 years to get me an 8 by 8 cake pan.....I get two, one for the sliding cover I have, but then apparently some old woman had to die or get put into geezer land, and her ungrateful children had to clean out her stores and my pan had to end up in a junk shop.
That I can understand and feel bad about, as I wonder about things like that and how sad it all is. I would have planned things out different, but then I'm not God. I do think God likes waiting around for last minute stuff in drama, like parting Red Sea water and swooshing things over Egyptians at war.
I know people do not respond allot until.........well breathing their last or that fear of God thing as that usually gets their attention. Just the same, I do believe some prayers amount to more with God than other prayers.
Like parents praying for their children. God pays attention to them. Children praying for their parent to be saved is special too. People have to be aware though that praying for things, one gets things they do not want.........like praying for someone to be saved, might need a tragic event no one wants to get someone shook up enough to get them talking to God.
I do think that people are different, meaning some people are tougher than others and some are must more mule brained. God has a hard time getting through to people. Like for example the Indochinese peoples, who I adore. Those people suffer a whole lot in having huge burdens they seem to inherit. TL, has a friend from Vietnam who just seems in a rut where she just takes on responsibility with worthless males.
She could do so much better, as like Asian women, she works all the time, is always someone you can count on, but yet there is that duty thing going on in them, that they just are cemented in and dynamite will not get them off that track.
They have faith like that which is admirable. They are precious to God like Israelites in once you get them going in the right direction, they just will not ever deny God. The part that prayer helps in all of that is God moves for those people when their family intercedes for them.
I do not mean to make it out that God overcomes all if people choose not to be caring about others. My dad was someone who is most likely going to be the one saying all the good he did in life and Jesus saying that He never knew him. He could quote Scripture and use it against you, and he did. People like that who sit in pews or their own holier than thou though are the ones who will never change, as like Cain they think it is their holiness than God's and the only sinner in the room is you.
For people in other beliefs though, they have that belief for a reason. Faith is a thing that is though always there, and sometimes they are in another religion because they do not know what to do with God. Sometimes God is seen as a God of Europeans. Sometimes though God is there in them, and the goodness in them is God and they just do not know what to do.
Prayer though always helps God do things, as much as a Christian child or adult being an example to people not yet saved, that they can ponder. Praying for Jesus or the Holy Ghost to help save someone you care about in your being a living conduit of the Gospel is a good place to be, as God is the One doing the thinking, and you are the one being utilized.
We never know what it is that God is going to accomplish through us that is going to make a difference in how He saves people.
Tears for those we love are prayers I believe that God hears in special prayers.
There never is such a thing as a wasted prayer. God is always up to something and prayers always come to something. The reality is though we never need to fear outcomes nor have an anxiety that we are the ones doing the solving, as God already has things worked out and things solved.
Sometimes, there is the greatest missionary work in our own home, in a child just praying without night after night work, for the saving Grace for a parent. God is not going to use prayer time like that to beat a person over the head to toughen them up in Faith, as there is an entire life out there and things to learn endurance by. It is though not a child's responsibility to save a parent and they should not think it is their burden or feel guilt over it.
It is though something that as all children of God, whether 90 or 9, that if the Holy Ghost is putting a thought into your head, that maybe that is communication God is willing to move on if He hears back from you.
Sometimes it is God's vengeance and sometimes it is God's good for someone. It is though the reality that God does have things happening on schedules and sometimes Christians need to not be so focused on "what they think needs doing" in talking to God, but going with what God is bringing up as that is on the agenda.
That is not to say that we can not pray about anything as prayers are a big reservoir of God to operate from. It is something though to keep in mind that God is in charge, and is moving and answering prayer, and that He is working through us if we pray.
That makes things easy for us and the responsibility on God where it belongs, as He is a Good God Who weighs all things in people's lives and decides on things in Mercy, Grace and Love.
Sometimes we come into the world to help God with the chance for someone in saving them. Sometimes it is like my Mom who carried me around when I had the croup so I would not die and sometimes it is me years later carrying her around so she can stay in the world from a broken hip.
We do not save though as God is the One Who saves. We just are there in caring about them as God Cares for all.
First we keep ourselves in God, and then God can utilize us in ways we might not think important in being the living Gospel to someone else.
God lead you my children by His Holy Spirit as you abide in His Peace in Christ's Name Amen and Amen
agtG 247Y
