I hope what I’m about to share blesses you. It’s simply a testimony to how wonderful our God is, and how much more wonderful life in Him is and gets as we live from day to day.
There’s no time with God, only timely blessings. And as we wait for God to answer our prayers, He’s building our faith and all the other fruit of the Spirit in us. He’s building an appetite in us for Him. He’s encouraging us to seek Him with our whole heart – the biggest blessing in the entire universe. We have such an amazing God.
Here’s the answer the Holy Spirit gave me regarding a very old prayer where I asked Him, “Why did I have to have the parents I had?”
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With all the trials I’ve had (including my health and work challenges), and because I had the parents I had, I was forced to get close to Jesus, to learn how to rely on Him solely. Wow, I can really be thankful for my mom and dad driving me to Jesus. I mean it. That’s wonderful beyond words, and a tremendous breakthrough for me. Without my mom and dad being the way they are/were with their damaging and paralyzing strongholds of worry, unforgiveness, bitterness, the fear of man and many others, I might never have found intimacy with God. (I know that sounds backwards, but it’s not in the hands of the Lord of Lords.) That’s powerful! So Merlin Carothers (Author of Prison To Praise and Power In Praise) was right. It doesn’t matter what kind of situation, or series of circumstances, motivates you to want to get closer to God, the important thing is that you do get closer to God so you can be free, indeed, so you can get on the road that heads back to Eden. Only Jesus, and His faithfulness, can take us there.
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Truly, God is so awesome and so faithful. Thank you, Jesus, for this incredibly liberating answer to my prayer.
He loves each of us so dearly, precious people…☺
God bless,
Mark