IDOK DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2010
FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:
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While preparing my face to greet the public, I was mulling over some prior conversations, particularly the statement: ‘I just don’t know why this is not working.’
I didn’t have a quick comeback at the time but in my mulling session I thought: ‘But it is working. You just don’t see it. God is working and the situation in question is working. It is accomplishing what ABBA knows is needed. Even when it looks like nothing is working. HE IS WORKING’.
If we could just get our wills around this truth, we’d be a much happier bunch in times adverse to what we want, would we not? So why don’t we believe it? Why don’t we will ourselves to believe that GOD IS WORKING always and forever on our behalf?
John 5:(Amplified Bible)17But Jesus answered them, My Father has worked [even] until now, [He has never ceased working; He is still working] and I, too, must be at [divine] work.
What a grievous thing it is for us to entertain and allow ourselves to believe that He is not working in our circumstance or even that He is maliciously delaying something we so desperately want. Oh my! That lands like a pile of bricks. When we desperately want anything to the point that we will let the thought hang around within the walls of our mind that ‘God is not working on this’, then we can know that we are desperate for the ‘thing’, rather than being desperate for ABBA and His will.
And that’s the ‘rest of the story’ to I just don’t know why this is not working!
This feels right. Right to KNOW that You are working. That You are always tending to what concerns us. That no situation that touches us, no hurt, no wrong, no sadness, no lack, nothing – absolutely nothing comes or passes that it does not have Your attention and Your Hand of correction, guidance, resolution, whatever is needed for Your Glory and our good. I am so blessed to KNOW this, ABBA. Thank You. Thank You. I love you. And I thank You for that too. And I pray each of our IDOKs KNOW this too and if not that they will come to believe it today. We pray for our IDOK Troops for peace and safety, for protection in spirit, soul and body and for each of them to return home safe and sound at the appointed time. We pray for each soul represented by a name on our Praying For These list. Particularly I am reminded of Bridgett and her family and in line with this lesson thank You that You are working in this medical crisis and in this we pray for peace and healing for Bridgett and all the family. And we pray for others, all those whose names and requests have been given to us for prayer. We are glad to pray, glad to enter into this work with You, ABBA, asking for just what they need and asking in JESUS NAME. And praying too for Israel, for peace and protection and continuing to pray for revival for the Church and for space and grace for American People to be saved. Amen and amen.
