She was so sick.
We had walked through days of fevers and lethargy with her and she was wiped out. At five years old, days strung together with fever is too much.
So Monday night we kneeled down by her bed for bedtime prayers and asked our God for help. {I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121}
We boldly asked for His hand to hold her and to relieve the pain and the fever and the exhaustion. We prayed believing.
Then she woke in the middle of the night with another 104 degree fever. We dosed with medicine and ice packs, and she limped into bed with us. When we woke that morning, I told her how sorry I was that she was still so sick here on day 5. She looked up at me, weakly smiling, and offered, Well mommy, we’ll just keep praying and praying and praying until I get better.
She teaches me every single day. She teaches me about bravery. She teaches me about persistence. She teaches me about deeper faith.
And so I crawled out of bed and got on my knees and we offered up another offering of prayer to our Heavenly Father. {Your prayers have come as a memorial offering to God. Acts 10:4}
Sometimes that is what prayer is: an offering. Given with every ounce of faith you have. Or beyond.
Tonight, just one week later, I found myself on my knees at the door of another child. With an even bigger offering.
Praying beyond any wisdom I possessed but trusting in a God that sees and knows and can answer in ways I can’t even see to ask.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding… Proverbs 3:5
I don’t know what you are up against today. But there is an answer. Maybe one you can’t see your way to through the hurt or tears or anger or frustration or confusion or exhaustion. God sits exalted above all of the dust and din that surrounds us. {For everything in heaven and earth is yours…You are exalted as head over all. Chronicles 29:11}
It may take everything in you to get down on your knees and beg for answers or healing or a reprieve or restoration, but find a way. And after crying out in the evenings, when the morning comes, and you still don’t see a way out, you keep praying and praying until it gets better.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Ephesians 6:18
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. Luke 18:1
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you. I Thessalonians 5:16-18
Superb post; thank you.