Dear friend: I love the Lord, but…
March 2, 2011 | Faith: Knowing Christ, Feelings: Intentional freedom, Q&A: Dear Friend
Dear Suzie,
I love the Lord and I sometimes, more often than I should, find myself allowing other things and people to get in my way of having a true relationship with Christ. I hope your team will be praying for me. Mary C.
Dear Mary, I love that you love the Lord. I do too, and it has absolutely transformed me and the direction of my life. But it has been a process. At first, all I knew was that I loved the Lord. But I resisted in many ways His hands on my life, because of lack of knowledge, because I didn’t realize God was shaping me even in those times when it seemed like He was taking away things from me.
I didn’t know He wanted so much better for me, offering me things of great value over things that held such low value for me and my life.
Over time, those hands became familiar and much-loved, and I recognized what He was doing.
I pray you put yourself in those hands. Understand, it will be bumpy at first as you resist, and find your place in those hands and ease into them. Over time you find those hands familiar. You recognize His touch. His teaching. His voice when He speaks. But you also begin to recognize the distractions that once held so much power. Like people or places that offer little value.
He loves you, Mary. So much. And yes, I will pray. Let’s begin today, okay? Rather than pray my own words over you, I will pray Scripture. The Word of God is powerful.
From Ephesians 1:17 -22 : I pray for Mary constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give her spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that she might grow in her knowledge of God. I pray that Mary’s heart will be flooded with light so that she can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want Mary to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people.
I pray that she will begin to understand the incredible greatness of his power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.
Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come.
In the powerful name of Christ, Amen
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I feel the same as Mary. Please pray for me, too. Thank you!
March 7th, 2011 at 2:58 pm