Friday, January 28, 2005

Intercession

The three dreams I wrote about have laid heavy on my heart for these 3 years now. I know that God has called me to intercessory prayer, but I always felt so incapable and unworthy of this calling I would never admit it. I have prayed these past years, but not the way He desires for me. I was always afraid to admit it.
One reason is I see interssory prayer as an awesome gift, one that I surely couldn't possess. I see the intercessors at church and have such a respect for their walk with God and see I am still filled with too much sin to be put in that category.
Another reason is praying is such a hard thing for me to do. My brain runs at a hundred miles a minute. Sometimes I just wish I could shut it off and get some quiet. I can be thinking of ten problems at once and try to find solutions for them all while helping the kids do schoolwork. It makes me crazy sometimes. So in that way I feel very inadequate because I can't seem to focus all of my attention on God and what He wants me to pray. My mind wanders to everything else, but Him. This problem alone makes me see how unworthy I am to serve Him.

Now I am drawn to prayer more and more. My mind still wanders, but I am believing that God will help me. Now my prayers are so intense. I feel pain and compassion I never new possible when I pray.
I still feel so inadequate and I am missing so many opportunities that I just feel so unprepared for. So in a nut shell, the revelation for those 3 dreams is :PRAY!
I am sure there is more, but I am still trying to obey the first revelation. I probably won't get more until I can simply obey what I know right now.

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