Thoughts turned to a loved one...
Prolonged waiting makes for a heavy heart... that cries out to Him...
Following prayer... sleep came quickly... but became restless...
Waking several times... with heart-felt prayers pouring forth in my mind...
Different than anything experienced before... I have had wakeful nights... God pressing me to pray... often out of bed and to my Bible... clearly conscious of the call to intercede...
But this... waking with full blown prayer... over and over... wrestling... with Him... not only for one... but others too...
Finally waking... just before the alarm... a settling... the wrestling done...
My flesh wonders if I should worry... but my spirit says be still... He's at work...
And I wonder... was I Jacob... wrestling with Him... crying out... I won't let you go... till you bless them...
Or was I Epaphras... the one who wrestled in prayer... so others might stand firm in all His will...
Either way... called to a long night of travail... a labor of love...
Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart like water
in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him
for the lives of your children...
Lamentations 2:19
Who have you wrestled with Him for lately...?
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