Time has been ticking since January. Sometimes so slow, making the weeks seem like ages, and other times so quickly that you blink and it’s already time to pack up and move out. I can hardly believe that we are nearing June, which also means nearing the half-way point of this journey.
It hasn’t always been easy. In fact, there seem to be more hard days than good days. I was thinking about the things that I wanted out of this race. At the beginning of the race, I wrote a letter to my six month self as well as a list of all the things that I wanted to get out of the World Race. One thing was that I wanted to become was a woman of prayer.
I’ve talked about it already, but these last few weeks have had a lot of down time. Recently, a ministry opportunity once again fell through. Frustrated, we decided that we would walk through a Buddhist temple and pray. Later that night I was messaging my mom and expressing my frustration that all we did was pray. She reminded me of the importance of praying and how perhaps that was the most powerful thing we could do in that moment. Later that night a few of my teammates and I were listening to a podcast. The only one we could load was all about the power of prayer, go figure. As I listened to the pastor, I couldn’t help but remember that prayer was something I wanted to grow in. He kept on talking about how all throughout the Bible, we always see God’s power accompanied by the prayers of His people. He has given me so many opportunities to pray and intercede on the behalf of others. It’s so easy to say that I want to see Him move and work in incredible ways. Of course its something that I want to be apart of, but I’m being reminded that that really shouldn’t be my number one focus. One of the most powerful ways that I have the opportunity to be apart of the work that God is doing is through being diligent in prayer. Perhaps I should be more concerned with bringing all these things before the Lord and offering them up to Him. Perhaps I need to stop being so focused on the “doing” and start focusing on the power that is behind it all.
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21
