I always feel like such an idiot when i realize that i have been missing this huge picture that has been posted right in front of my face for a long time. i mean seriously, if you literally had something hanging in front of your face and didn’t realize it was there for an extended period… how dumb would you feel when you finally looked up. Or maybe we are just blatantly ignoring it.
This has been the case to this World Race thing from the beginning of the whole process. I need more prayer! Prayer, this totally obvious thing that i have been doing an awful job at, in concerns with my World Race. I know the power of praying, i have seen it, i have total faith in it, and in God, and i guess i have reached this ignorant idea that i know God will do everything for my good, that everything will work out, Which it will!!(this is not a bad mentality if you share the same one) BUT, some part of my mind has come to the conclusion that i don’t have to ask anymore. How selfish and stupid that makes me seem. I feel like i am seeing myself as this spoiled brat that just thinks she can get whatever she wants… NO!
We can know and rest in the fact that God will comfort us, and provide for us, and grow us in what we need to be closer to him, but that still doesn’t mean we are entitled to anything. Everything we have and everything we are given is only by the grace of God, and only God can be praised. and the only reason we are given such beautiful things is because God can look upon us, which is only possible because Jesus Christ died to make us sinless.
God desires us to ask him for things. He pleads with us to obey and follow his way, just as a father pleads with his child to not run out into the middle of the road, in rush hour traffic. He wants the best for us, and in order for us to understand how to properly receive a gift, we have to learn how to ask for one. God can and will give us things we don’t ask for. but does it not reflect such a better character to ask for something from our father, rather than just expecting it. and to ask not only for selfish things but to learn how to ask for things that will ultimately give glory and praise to the one who provides!
Matthew 7:7-8 says “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who ask receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door will be opened.”
i LOVE the three verbs that are listed together because it shows us the nature of why we would ask. God knows what we want to ask, before we ask it (Matthew 6:8) but the nature of asking can be seen in relation to the two other things listed. they are such simple things, but one actions is prevalent upon the other. How can you find something without seeking for it, and if you(customarily) come to friend or neighbors door, how else could you hope for them to answer the door unless you knock. It is the same with prayer, and in life in general, if you need something that is not belonging to you, how else can you receive it unless you put forth the effort to ask. Of course God will give us things and answer our “maybe un-prayed” prayers, but how much sweeter is it to know that if you just ask He will give it to you.
So i need some serious help.I have been so disobedient in asking god to prepare me, and support me, and just give me, financially and spiritually, everything i am going to need for the World Race. so i could you a few friends to commit to joining me in prayer for all aspects of the race, daily, or weekly, or whenever you think of the race or me, or anything. Because its time to get on my praying wheels! let me know if you can schedule me in, and get serious with me about praying.
-Love you guys, Peace
Carli Torti
