INDIA | Villages of Ongole
God has really been teaching me this month about specific prayers. Knowing this ahead of time, he placed Leslie and Carmen with me all month to kinda show me the ropes on this. I have said several times that it seems as if these two women have a direct phone line to God in which they make their requests and he delivers. Whether it was Carmen specifically asking for a bus that had beds, air con, outlets, night lights, and water, and every single one of those things being on our over night bus or Leslie asking God for a dream and a vision and them being the same thing and it happening. So, with their examples fresh in my mind and God leading me in this direction I have begun to pray more specifically.
On a whim I just asked that I would get to do some kind of painting this month. I have been asking my team to do it since Thailand, but never had the opportunity. So I just randomly prayed a little prayer, and you know what….like an hour later this cute American couple that we had never seen before are in our apartment telling us they need painters. CRAZY, right? Now I am like ok… I can do this specific prayer thing.
In the planning for the painting we realize that four houses need to be done and we will have one day at each house to prime, paint, and do a mural in a matter of 6 hours. Now the last time we painted a mural it took 5 whole days, so to accomplish a mural in one seemed a little daunting. So I began to pray that first the paint would dry quickly and second we would only need one coat. And as you probably guessed both of those things happened! The paint dried in matters of minutes and the blue coat was so think there was no need for a second coat. It was truly a God project and his hand was in every step.
I know these are small examples of specific prayers but I feel that if God cared so much about showing that he would deliver in these small moments, how much more in the big moments. I have decided that I want my life to be full of expecting prayers. I want to continually rely on God so much that if He doesn’t come through I fall on my face. So today I specifically pray for a community of believers that also live lives of expectation and challenge me to count on God more and more!
