I was going through this thread. I noticed many things. Each of us admited we are weak. Each of us admited we hurt, and are bound because of our pains. There is no glory in ourselves here. Take an hour to pray and if you think you have something to boast about I am sure tomarow you will find you lose an hour. Today we are up, tomarow we are down. Yet we keep moving on. God honors the dillegent. As this race, this battle, is not to the swift or to the strong......But to those who wait on God. I noticed one post here I seem to have missed. And maybe it is good that I did so I would find it today.
iktca said:
I had a strange prayer experience last night. I got a flu and were having chills and sweats. To make it worse, I had the worst hay fever, clogging my nostrils completely. Not being able to breathe, I got up in the middle of the night with aching body.
I have the flu myself right now. Maybe that is why this post hit me harder than normal. It seems to be a mirror of myself at the moment. Including the next quote from it.
I knelt to pray. But my soul was completely dry. There was no spiritual stirring in me. I couldn't pray. I lied on my back and kept asking the Lord to heal me repeatedly like a broken record, wetting dry mouth with sips of water frequently. Somehow I got the thought of praising him. But my soul was completely dry and could not come up with any praise words.
Amazing how fast we go from dry to thirsty, and thirsty to filled. I seen myself slip so offten these past few days. My hours have become 40 minutes. And then some days it seems I fall into the 3 minutes catagory. Like I said, no boasting in praying an hour for tomarow you may not. All our hours the glory belongs to God. And all our failures the mercy comes from God and grace to pick us up yet again.
I started to praise in tongues. Soon my soul was stirred. I ended up singing hymns and dancing in joy lying on the back. It would have been like an upside down turtle moving all 4 legs to get back up.
Praise.........how can a person praise what they do not love? How can they love what they do not know? It is said "your sins have separated you from God." Such a fearfull thing. To know to do something and do it not is sin. My how often I have sined
. To take a day that God made, and not glorify Him in it but rather feed the flesh...it is a horrid sickness all men have. How can we take the harps off the willow tree in a strange land? But God said Come! COME let us reason together. When we come to Him and reason together with Him, confesing our sins, and acknoledging Him...when we come to him we leave our strange land.
God forgive me for being to slack. Forgive me for my sins. For not mortifing the deeds of the flesh, and for being so unconserned as to have waited till now to come to you. I am undone. Please do your work in me as you have said you would. "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow". Do so to me for your mercy sake, and I shall take my harp off the tree and sing a song to thank you. Lead me in your ways, and cause me not to error.
-Amen-
I still have the remnants of the flu and hay fever. I ask you to pray for my healing. Hay fever has been disturbing me for years and it is getting worse. A godly man laid his hand on me. I was cleared of all symptons for one season. I see that as the Lord telling me that he would heal. But I do not know when. I keep asking.
My Father...my mercifull God. Remember your servents, those who have trusted in you. Those who love you because you have loved us. Thank you for the cleaning of our souls and the wings you give our hearts. Wings as eagles to fly for your glory and our joy in you. Thank you so much for our hope. You have done these things for our souls. What is it that you should do it for our temples? Father heal these temples. Repaire them please, that we may show your glory in our bodies. Remember us...."You are the apple of my eye" were your words. You never forgot us. Help us to never forget you.
-Amen-
I learned one thing last night. I can praise the Lord even in difficult times. If I do not praise the Lord, it is only because I am negligent. To me praising the Lord is the holiest thing a man can do. I must be diligent on this.
This is what hit hardest to me. This and the next quote. I have not been dillegent. But today and tomarow are not over. The race is not yet compleat. Let us run and not faint. Walk and not be weiry. In a race such as this there are times to run in zeal, and times to walk in carfulness. But we shall mount up with wings as eagles as well. Our hearts will fly in this race. Because God calls. He calls us to come to Him and He is above. And when God calls we must obea. He gave man a mouth to reason with Him. And wings for the heart to fly to Him.
My friend,
Be diligent in your study of the word. And share what you learn with me.
Thank you more than you know for this post. I didnt see it till now but it is still a word in due season. Let us both be dillegent in our study of the word. And that word is more than scripture. It is God Himself. "The word was God". Let us dive into God and seek Him out. And let us share our wittness of Him with each other. I have witnessed His marvolus grace. My study of Him to date causes me to bear witness He is mercifull, and full of grace to pick us up to follow Him. He is the maker of and the object of my hope.