Pray with a sense of urgency.
That statement to me was always just that. A statement. It was never something I took super seriously. It was never something I did just because my heart strings were pulled. It was something I just heard pastors and people say over and over again…until September 27th.
It was an adventure day, a day spent jumping off cliffs and waterfalls between rocks into very deep natural pools, a trip to the beach with water so salty you float on the top, an ocean so blue you could see the bottom but couldn’t swim deep enough to touch it. It was a day dreams are made of. While at the beach, a squad mate and I went to the nearest beach shop to get some coconut water (I must add that it was absolutely positively amazing). While we were waiting for someone to chop open our treat we talked to the woman who owned the little shop. She spoke incredible English (which was very uncommon so I was a little too excited), she told us she was from Canada and that she had worked there for a long time until her job got sold to another company. Her husband was Dominican but had a stable job in Canada so she left to get a job here in the DR. Her story was incredible, I asked if I could pray for her and if she had any specific requests. She asked that I pray for her to have a good season so she can go home to Canada next year to see her husband and her son. Now, I will remind you guys I have never prayed with a sense of urgency because I didn’t fully understand the statement but in that moment I have never felt the Lord call me so deeply into a prayer with so much power behind it. He knew her heart and he knew my heart for we are daughters of the king. I can’t imagine having to leave home to work but I can imagine the way her son must desperately miss his mom because I felt the same way when my dad had to deploy. It was for the first time in my life I felt this pain so deeply I couldn’t help but pray with all my heart and with such a serious sense of urgency for this woman. I am so glad He called me to step into boldness in that moment so that I could speak life from our Holy Father into her life.
