AN UNSPOKEN REQUEST

What has God been teaching me recently? Well let me tell you! 😊

Since I moved back to South Dakota in 2015, I have been praying for an unspoken prayer request. And no, it is not for a healthy body or a husband. (Although I do pray for a healthy body and my future husband if the Lord wills it. This unspoken prayer request is not it. 😉) My unspoken prayer request is even more important. It’s a request of someone’s life, for change, for growth, for their ultimate salvation.

I have prayed many prayers and seen this person struggle more and more. Sometimes I would be so frustrated that I would ask God why? Why aren’t you answering this specific request?

I have prayed, “Lord, I asked for help. Why won’t you help them right now?”

“Right now.” That caught my attention the other day when I prayed and I realized again that God’s timing is different from mine. I have learned through many trials that God’s timing is different than mine but, in my humanness, I need lots of reminders. Don’t we all?  

I’ve been reading the book Radical by David Platt. David makes some very good points about our need for God. He writes,

            “In direct contradiction to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him. In this process he powerfully demonstrates his ability to provide everything his people need in ways they could never have mustered up or imagined. And in the end, he makes much of his own name…

            Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength. And when we do this, we will discover that we were created for a purpose much greater than ourselves, the kind of purpose that can only be accomplished in the power of his Spirit.”

David makes some powerful points of our walk with God. God wants us to need him, to trust him, to ask him for his strength.

Through my devotions today I read about a couple of God’s names.

Elohim Mikarov (God who is near) Jeremiah 23:23

El Roi (The God who sees) Genesis 16:7-16

El Ha Ne’eman (The Faithful God) Deuteronomy 7:9

(The names of God are taken from Gods Wisdom for Women by Patricia Miller and Rachel Gorman. This book is AWESOME!)

These names of God gave me hope. That my prayers aren’t in vain. That God is working in the unseen. That my unspoken prayer request is being heard. That I may need to see this person be broken even more before I may see change.

And that is ok. God does hear my prayers. He knows my heart to want to see this person find true happiness. So, I sink into the arms of my strong God, the God who is near, who sees, and who is faithful and I trust him. I trust him to move in mighty ways that I cannot see.

Psalm 61:1-3 says,
Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.”

God is good!

God is working in my unspoken even if I do not see it.

God is here and knows my heart.

Maybe you have an unspoken that you don’t seem to see God working in. He is! Don’t give up! Keep the faith! Keep on praying! Never give up hope in our Faithful God!

Much love to all who read.