Immediate Obedience
Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much,
and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
Luke 16:10
July 28-29
The tears dripped down my cheeks as the prayer time continued...I knew I had failed the test and my heart broke. The task had been simple. While praying the other day, the Lord gave me a vision of some small children's building blocks sitting on my husband's desk at work (He is Head Master at a Christian school). I didn't even go with the Lord and listen further, I just thought there was no way my husband was going to let me set children's blocks on his office desk. The next day he and I were in a time of prayer for something totally unrelated and I began to pray for my husband and his faculty. I prayed: "Lord, equip them to be encouragers, as Paul was to young Timothy. Help them to realized they are "building" the next generation." Conviction hit...the prayer continued and was powerful and I new right them, as simple as those 4 little blocks were I had disobeyed the Lord and not shared the idea. Sharing with my husband, he thought it was a powerful visual to have on his desk as a reminder of what they are called to do...shape these young lives.
No sooner had I gotten up from praying than the Lord gave me a burden for a 3 week old premie baby in my hometown. It was such an immense heaviness that I felt I was to email the mother, but I was busy. Hmm, how long would it have taken to email a prayer? Two hours later I am standing in the grocery store and notice a voice mail on my phone. It is a close friend asking me to pray for that baby...she was headed into very risky heart surgery.
Again, I was so convicted. If I can't be found faithful in the little things than why would God trust me with larger missions?
Bowing my head in repentance, I felt Jesus hug me and say..."Listen and learn, listen and learn."
The tears dripped down my cheeks as the prayer time continued...I knew I had failed the test and my heart broke. The task had been simple. While praying the other day, the Lord gave me a vision of some small children's building blocks sitting on my husband's desk at work (He is Head Master at a Christian school). I didn't even go with the Lord and listen further, I just thought there was no way my husband was going to let me set children's blocks on his office desk. The next day he and I were in a time of prayer for something totally unrelated and I began to pray for my husband and his faculty. I prayed: "Lord, equip them to be encouragers, as Paul was to young Timothy. Help them to realized they are "building" the next generation." Conviction hit...the prayer continued and was powerful and I new right them, as simple as those 4 little blocks were I had disobeyed the Lord and not shared the idea. Sharing with my husband, he thought it was a powerful visual to have on his desk as a reminder of what they are called to do...shape these young lives.
No sooner had I gotten up from praying than the Lord gave me a burden for a 3 week old premie baby in my hometown. It was such an immense heaviness that I felt I was to email the mother, but I was busy. Hmm, how long would it have taken to email a prayer? Two hours later I am standing in the grocery store and notice a voice mail on my phone. It is a close friend asking me to pray for that baby...she was headed into very risky heart surgery.
Again, I was so convicted. If I can't be found faithful in the little things than why would God trust me with larger missions?
Bowing my head in repentance, I felt Jesus hug me and say..."Listen and learn, listen and learn."
Make you laugh:
After seeing this entry, my husband was relieved to see the four LITTLE blocks. He confessed he thought I wanted to put those BIG cardboard, brick looking blocks on his desk, but he was willing to go along.
After seeing this entry, my husband was relieved to see the four LITTLE blocks. He confessed he thought I wanted to put those BIG cardboard, brick looking blocks on his desk, but he was willing to go along.
