Day 256 ~ Wednesday x2

PART I

     At church tonight this woman came up for prayer because she was having pain in her abdomen.  God had already started the healing process before she even came up to the altar for prayer.  Her pain had dropped from a 10 to a 4 by the time she got to us! Glory to God!  I love it when He does things even before we ask Him to!  It always reminds me about how much He must love us!

    Instead of just praying with this woman, we taught her how to pray for herself...  She barely even prayed and the pain was completely GONE!!!  I love it when God shows off to His children.  Her face just lit up when she realized there was no more pain!

PART II

     I am taking my LSAT exam, which is the exam to get into law school, in about two weeks.  I have been studying for several weeks already and my practice scores were about average.  My two options for law school in this area are both fairly high ranking schools which require high ranking scores...  I was starting to get really discouraged.  However, I several of my close friends have been praying for me, that I would score a 170/180.  Now, while this score is not unattainable it is very high and would place me in the top 92% of all people taking this test.  I, in my limited mind, was only hoping for a 165/180 which is still a fairly high score, but I just didn't think a 170 was do able.  Until tonight...

    I was sitting in the church service listening to Pastor Greg talk about hearing God and having faith and believing what He says.  He was also talking about believing God for the things that are beyond what we can do on our own.  If we can do it on our own it doesn't bring God glory.  At the same time I was thinking to myself, well there is no way that I can get a 170 on my LSAT, so I will believe that I will get a 165 and then I won't be disappointed when I don't get a 170.

   CARA!!! OMGOSH!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?!  But how many times have I done that... just all my life!  I don't dare believe that God can accomplish the seemingly impossible through me because I don't want to be disappointed or disappoint other people! Needless to say I repented. 

    One of the ladies on ministry team came up and we were talking after church was over and she asked me how the studying was going.  I was thinking ... not so hot.  I said, "Donna and Peggy are praying that I can get a 170 but I don't know..."  She interrupted me and said, "You are going to get a 180!"  I told her that that was a perfect score and only a tenth of one percent of people get that score.  Again, I felt the Lord saying that with Him all things are possible to those that BELIEVE.  So I chose to believe Him the whole way out of the church and all the way home.

     I took another practice test tonight and my score went up 15 points!!! I hit 163... that is the highest score I have gotten so far and only two points from the score I was willing to settle for.  I also finished the test ahead of time in each area!  I know that seems like a silly thing to pray for, but God is really teaching me about how to BELIEVE what He says in His Word and that He is faithful and I need to trust Him.

I wonder how many things I have let go by the wayside because I didn't know God was big enough????