Day 136 - Learning Curve

I am realizing I am definitely more in a learning curve at the moment.  God is teaching me so much about Himself and who I am in Him.... Every single thing it seems is another lesson.  Don't get me wrong I am grateful, but like all lessons, they are often painful... Jesus Growing Pains :O)

I had the opportunity to pray with a girl on facebook tonight. I have only met her in person one time, she is a friend of a client.  She has been going through this awful fear about the end of time, worrying that it will be this weekend or next December, or whatever.  

I got the opportunity to ask her if Jesus came back tomorrow was she certain where she would go and she said, "Yes," that she had accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior three years ago.  She said that she really wanted to have a baby though.  She just got married last weekend.  I asked her if she was sure that she was sure that she was sure that she wanted to have a baby.  So we prayed and asked the Lord for a baby for her and her husband. 

What a privilege to be asked to pray with someone who only met me one time!  You just never know the impact sharing your faith will have on someone! 

Back to the point of all of this... one of the scriptures that I quoted when I was praying with her was "Ask anything in My Name and I will do it." (John 14:14) and old stand by in most Christian's biblical arsenal.

So tonight as I sit down to write this, my laptop's battery is completely dead.  For some reason or another it goes through these moments where the cord, even though it is plugged in, does not want to charge the battery.  I do NOT want to go downstairs and use the desktop.  It is cold down there and I am tired and I want to sit in my comfy bed while I type this, NOT in the uncomfortable leather desk chair.

So I start praying over it.  Nothing happens.  I can feel there is some reason it isn't working.  So I stop and I pray and ask the Lord.  I felt compelled to read my Bible first.  So I did. Then I prayed some more and messed with the cord and tried telling it to work in the Name of Jesus.... Nothing happened.  I listened again to the Lord and felt Him directing me to read the first chapter of this other book that I had pulled out earlier in the day.  So I did.  After that I felt the block sort of lift.  So I tried again.  Nothing happened. 

By now I am getting fed up.  I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO GO DOWNSTAIRS.  So as I am getting close to the point of giving up, out of my mouth flies John 14:14, and a voice spoke to me and said, "Aren't you going to believe what you are telling others to believe?" 

OUCH!!!  He never asks the question to find out an answer, but more to illuminate my own misses and near misses!  The minute that scripture came out the battery and plug light lit up on my laptop.  Now I am sitting here and writing this... in my nice comfy bed.

I love Him..... He never leaves me where I am.  He is always moving me into new places in Him, and I am grateful for His unrelenting LOVE!

Thank You Father for helping me to Believe Your Word! Like the centurion said, "I believe, help me with my unbelief."