There’s a tiny pastel blue flower with a bright yellow center here in Zambia that seems like something that everyone would just pass by. It’s not particularly beautiful, big, or bright but when I saw this cluster of little blue flowers it stopped me in my tracks. The Lord spoke to me and said,” Here, my daughter. I heard you and I didn’t forget.”
Let me back up for a second.
Back in a blog from Malawi, I talked a lot about being romanced by the Lord and was finally starting to understand that depth of what He means when he says that He truly desires to know the desires of my heart and to give them to me because He loves when I find joy in His creation. And then I told you how I find a lot of joy in flowers. The intricacy of them, the colors, the shapes, how big or small they are, the one that we find beautiful because it stands out and demands our attention, or the ones that so quietly relax in the background, still so beautiful, but waiting to be noticed by the right person. The Lord created each and every kind and that blows my mind.
I began to understand that He wants me to ask Him for those small and seemingly insignificant things. So back in Malawi in one of my prayers I asked God if He would show me a blue flower. That was the only color that I hadn’t seen in Malawi yet and I thought ‘If the God of the Universe wants me to trust Him with my salvation and my future, then why wouldn’t He want me to bring Him the tiniest things that make up the big ones?’ So I asked, I prayed and wrote it down so I would remember, and I waited.
Nothing.
For the rest of Malawi, I saw no blue flowers and you better believe I was keeping my eyes peeled. I was disheartened and questioned why God would tell me that He wants me to bring Him EVERYTHING and then not come through. But as the month came to an end and we started out travel to Zambia, I just pushed the thought out of my head and forgot about it.
Then, we came to Zambia and the first day of ministry our host took us to pray over the plot of land that we would be working on all month. And y’all, as soon I set foot onto the property I looked down and all around me were these amazing little blue flowers in patches all over the field. Que my internal freaking out session. The Lord didn’t forget about my prayer or think my request was too silly for Him to even think about!
As I processed all of this through with the Lord and one of my squad leaders (thanks, Jenni!!), God showed me that even though He delights in hearing my heart and my desires, His timing is still significant even if the request seems insignificant. He showed me that I can trust Him in things that don’t seem to have any impact on my life, but also that I have the faith to ask Him for specific things; things that may eventually be much more than a flower, but still may seem like such small item to bring before Him. But it’s those small events that make up the big, life-changing events.
In Judges 6 and 7 Gideon asks the Lord for such specific requests that seem SO random, but in the end the Lord grants him the conquering of the Midianites because of his faith in the Him! Trust the Lord in bringing Him EVERYTHING, y’all! He wants to hear our hearts; He delights in it. And even if our requests aren’t answered in our timing, it doesn’t mean that that your prayer didn’t go through the ceiling or that He doesn’t care. He cares so stinkin’ much! We can’t just pick and choose the parts of our life we want Him in, so take a leap of faith and ask God for the things that only He could orchestrate…ask God for your little blue flower.
Thanks for reading! Love and miss you all so much!!
