Day 52- Fail!

Today I was pretty much in isolation mode.  Go to class, go to the gym, earphones in, head to the library.  As little human interaction as possible! Which is not productive for loving people! ;o) I suppose we are all allowed a down day every once in a while.  Hmmmm... maybe not!

As I was leaving class today, my friend called and asked if I would pray with her because she was teaching on Acts 2 at her Bible study tonight.  I started to pray and the words were awesome.  I was calling down tongues of fire from heaven that teh people would be shaken from their comfort zones and that they would move into the hope of their greater calling and all this other incredible stuff. As I was finishing, I just felt in my spirit that it just wasn't going to happen. 

     Normally, I would have just assumed that was my natural pessimism coming out.  Instead I spoke my thoughts out loud to my friend and as I did, God filled my heart with a different prayer to pray.  We began to pray for their hearts to be open and receptive to the movement of God's Spirit.  We finished praying just as she reached her Bible study group.

     I called her later tonight to find out how it went.  Her reply, "It was awful!"  She said they basically picked every thing she said apart.  My friend shared with them her experiences of God's power flowing through her.  Another member of the group shared how she had seen a man healed when the two of them prayed for him.  Most of the people were not very receptive to put it mildly.  My friend was really bummed out about how it turned out.  It sounds like it was a serious failure.

     In reality, her words tonight were seeds being planted in their hearts.  I know that they will grow like the mustard seed.  They will become fruitful.  They may not have embraced the idea that salvation is so much more than just a "Get out of Hell Free" card, but at least they heard my friend's testimony and all the good that God is accomplishing through her and through others.  I hope and pray that I am never afraid to share my testimony with others, no matter what the cost!