September 26, 2005

• Miracles happen when I’ve ‘prayed for anything’…

  Case in Point #1

  I’ve known my best friend since our junior year in high school.  We have never lived in the same city.  Despite all that, we have always managed to be in sync with each other.  One of the things we always dreamed of was how cool it would be if we could actually live together.  For some reason, it seemed *impossible*.  But, despite that, we decided to pray for it anyway.  And it happened!  God gave us a few months of together-living before she went off to be equipped for Literacy work with Wycliffe. 

  Case in Point #2
  My sister used to ask me the hardest questions about Christianity.  She’d ask me what I thought about homosexuality, she’d ask me what God said about monogamy and why, she’d ask about the accuracy of the Bible and where it came from, and all these other really hard questions.  I remember walking away from these conversations feeling defeated.  Boy, my answers felt so inadequate.  She lived life according to her own way, rather than God’s way. She was depressed and unhappy, and I knew it.  She was as far from God as I thought was possible.  And I prayed as often as I could, as fervently as I could, that God would heal her brokenness.  But I also prayed, “Lord, honestly, I don’t feel like you could do this, even though I cognitively know you can.  Please take my unbelief and slam it in my face.  Prove me wrong.  This is the biggest miracle I can think of right now – if you cause my sister’s heart to be fully devoted to you.”  And He did it.  To my utter shock and surprise, He did it.  Her life is *totally* different now.

  Case in Point #3
  When my spiritual mentor Larry suggested that S and I move to San Diego so that we could be in the same place to develop our relationship, be near my family and get invested in by Nav staff, I thought it was such a perfect idea – but I didn’t think S would go for it at all.  After all, he’d have to leave his family/home where it was most comfortable for him, move halfway across the nation to get there, and be on *my* turf.  Talk about a risk.  I thought there’d be no way in the world (especially because we hadn’t officially started our courtship at the time and had only known each other by long distance correspondence)… but I prayed anyway, “Lord, I know this is impossible, but wouldn’t it be just perfect?  It seems perfect to me.  Would you make it happen?”  And then I whispered, “Would you really give me *all* the desires of my heart?”  When I mentioned to S what Larry had suggested, his immediate response was, “That’s a great idea!”  I was totally floored. 

  God is so good.  And all of this is just more evidence that I can keep asking Him for things beyond my wildest dreams. 

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