The last day of the first month of completing my New Year's Resolution, and I fall asleep before I finish my post, NICE! I started writing at 8pm and got distracted. I am glad I did because I wouldn't be sharing this story with you if I had finished it then.
I let my kids watch a movie on my laptop last night. As we were all sitting in my bed waiting for it to load, my son begins to tell me about a dream he had had the night before about slaying bad guys with the Name of Jesus, I was thinking WOW! how cool that my ten year old already gets that the Name of Jesus will save him in the time of trouble. He then says to me, "Mom, I pray every night over our house when I go upstairs to take my bath that God will protect us and our house." In response my daughter chimes in, "He does, Mom, I heard him last night praying!" How Amazing! We have not really talked about praying much lately but they watch what I do and they are growing in their boldness and the authority to "boldly come before the throne."
I was talking with my pastor yesterday and I asked him to pray that I would have more boldness to which he replied, "I don't know how you could have anymore!?!?!" My reply was, "I am just a chicken in a lion suit." Each and every time I see someone in a wheelchair or with an oxygen tank, with a cane or a limp, it is a conscious decision to walk up and offer to pray with them or to turn and go the other way. Each time it is choosing to be that chicken or choosing to be that lion in Christ. I am praying that I will be able to be the lion more often than the chicken. I am not there yet!
Yesterday I got to pray for baby Colin. He was born late Sunday night 5 weeks premature. The doctors were talking about transporting him 4 hours away from home to a bigger hospital. My friend Chris and I prayed yesterday morning and he has been able to stay at the hospital with his mom! Colin is not out of the woods yet though, so if anyone reads this, please keep him in your prayers!
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