Hello Beautiful!  🙂 Â
Today’s God’s Prints were a bit difficult to digest because when faced with the truth of our beliefs we all have difficulty in admitting that there is a flaw in our relationships – and that the flaw is there because of us. Â Let me begin with the story of how my husband was able to make my children’s dreams come true. Â
Ever since my children learned how to make noise and point with their finger, airplanes have been a common topic of communication in my house. Â They have become so obsessed, that when we drive by a very tiny airport near our home, they ask my husband or me to actually go inside the airport so that they can see the airplanes clearly. Â As you can imagine, they continually ask about actually going inside a plane… Â but how do you make that happen?
For me it would have been very difficult, but my husband has absolutely no shame in relation to that. Â On a day that I was not with them, Freddy knocked on the door of a flight school. Â There, he politely asked if the children could go inside one of the airplanes. Â Guess what they responded…Â
When the children came home with the story that they had been  inside one of the airplanes, I immediately was reminded  of the Scripture in James 4:2-3 where God says, “You do not have because you do not ask”! Â
Are you setting yourself up for failure by not being blunt in your requests to God?
Are you walking around hungry and thristy, while all along having everything you need to be satiated in front of  you?
Answer the call –
boldly go before the throne of Grace and make your petitions known.
Here is mine:  I choose to ask God to heal any area of my past that I have yet to experience freedom in… 🙂
How about you? Â What are you choosing to ask God? Â
Leave me a comment with your answer…  I love chatting with yoy! 🙂
Love in Christ,
Nana
I choose to ask God to heal a certain area of my life (i don’t even know what it is but i know it’s there) I think that it may end up being very painful but i’m ready!
Marjolaine, when the Lord brings healing it might feel painful but there is always the hope of freedom and TRUE healing.. Praying the Lord gives you that peace… 🙂
What a beautiful illustration of OUR father’s love for US! Thank you for sharing.
Debra, it is always a great reminder to realize that God wants to give us the desires of our heart. 🙂 Thanks for your comment! 🙂 The Lord knows it means the world to me!
I choose to ask God to exchange Himself for any area of my life that I’m trying to fill with something else. Thank you for sharing this! Inspiring indeed! Hugs and love!
Anita, isn’t it funny how we are so much like the Israelites who continually found themselves trying to create gods that “replaced” the true God. May the Lord grant you the desire of being centered in Him alone!
I choose to ask God to NOT JUST allow us to be debt free but to have MORE THAN ENOUGH to provide not just for ourselves but to FREELY GIVE to others in need.
Amen Robin!! I will join you in that prayer. While you wait may you learn to live content with much or little, for indeed the Lord is more than enough. 🙂
Oh, Nana, what a lovely story.
I have not asked God for much lately….he cannot bring my dad back, nor my husband’s father. I believed that scripture that says “ask and it shall be given”, and OH I prayed when my father in law died. I prayed and prayed, telling God that I KNEW He could do ANYTHING, and He could erase time and give him back, if it was His will. Each day I woke up, he was still gone.
However, the last thing I prayed for was given. I prayed for “just a little more time with my mom” when I sat by her hospital bedside, wondering if she would ever wake up, and IF she did, what would she be like after suffering a stroke and all she’d been through. She has also overdosed on her prescription medications, because the stroke had happened many days before, but she was confused most of the time and had been OVERtaking her medicines.
He gave her back to me…she now lives with me, and it IS a struggle everyday, between myself, my husband, and my mother ALL dealing with great loss and depression. Oh what a crew we are!!
But I am learning. I am CHOOSING to communicate again, and ASK. I am curious to see what He does.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story.
Blessings,
Dana W. 😉
What a blessing Dana to know that you have chosen to ask again~! The best remedy for pain is the constant communication with the Lord! 🙂 Praying for you!
I choose to ask God to break the chains of addiction from my grandchildren’s generation backward and forward into the future. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story!!!
Debi, I fully understand addiction and have seen how the Lord in His faithfulness has answered that prayer. I will continually lift up your family with that specific prayer! 🙂 He is able to do that and much more! Hugs!
What a powerful story Nana and isn’t it so much like children to teach us lessons of how to communicate with Our Heavenly Father in how they communicate with us their earthly parents!!
Children think nothing about continually asking us the same things over and over until they get the answer they want yet we hardly ever do that with Our Heavenly Father even though He says in His word, “Ye have not ‘because’ you ask not.”
I’m going to keep on ASKING the Lord to draw my son, George close to Himself and that he would surrender completely to the Lordship of Christ, and find forgiveness in his heart to forgive & let go of hurts done to him in the past, and bring his family back together for the glory of God.
Thank you again, Nana that was a powerful illustration of asking God.
I ask god for me and my ex,husband to have a 2nd time around I still love him so much