To Be...Crazy

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Friend, drawing a prayer circle in the sand. 
The outcome of her prayers was more than anyone could have imagined!
Another crazy friend pulling her mattress and boxspring 
behind her lawn mower so she could 
stop and lay on her face and pray while out doing yard work!  
(JK, but I love this photo and ingenuity of how to move your mattress to the basement.)

March 20

"but this woman is driving me crazy...she's wearing me out with her constant requests!"  Luke 18:5

I just finished reading Day 10 in Mark Batterson’s devotional book, Draw the Circle.  
On Day 10 the verse is “The woman is driving me crazy.” Luke 18:5 NLT  
It is the story of the persistent widow and I love it!
Batterson writes: “We aren’t told what injustice took place, but she was on a mission. Maybe her son was falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit.  Maybe the man who molested her daughter was still on the streets.  We don’t know for sure. But whatever it was, she wouldn’t take no for an answer. And the judge knew she would circle his house until the day she got justice or the day she died.  The judge knew there was no quit in this crazy woman.
Does the judge know that about you? 
How desperate are you for the blessing, the breakthrough, the miracle?   Desperate enough to pray through the night?  How many times are you willing to circle the promise? Until the day you die? How long will you knock on the door of opportunity? Until your knuckles are raw?  Until you knock the door down?”

May we be people who others say….Those people have a crazy faith!

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