when God says speak up…speak up
some of you know Trav and I recently started attending Potter’s Clay Fellowship. It has been a very unexpected blessing! well, we went last night to Bible Study and we always start off with any prayer requests. i had a prayer request from a friend, and i’ve never been one to speak up so i figured i would just keep it to myself and pray for the prayer request myself… i came up with every excuse during the requests as to reasons not to speak up… i was struggling the entire time as to weather to speak up or not.. first i thought to myself “they’ve started saying praise reports now, so i don’t want to bring everyone back down with a prayer request”, sure thing the next person said a prayer request… “ok God, but i don’t want to really bring up such a sad topic” (miscarriage, because a friend of mine that was there has miscarried twice), well… the very next prayer request was for a lady who had miscarried… “ok God, but i just don’t really know anyone here and they don’t even know who i am praying for, i really don’t even know the lady i was praying for, i just knew her situation. ok, i will say it if Trav or one of our friends say one”… then our friend raised her hand and said a prayer request… (i thought man, i’m not getting out of this one) so i raised my hand and spoke of my prayer requests… and guess what…. i didn’t die! why on earth did i struggle with that so much? i can’t believe i was withholding prayers from a lady who needed them for my own selfish reasons! now that i think about that… it makes me mad at myself! it doesn’t matter if i know or don’t know the people around me or even if i know who i am praying for… prayer helps everyone and the more prayer you can receive or give, the better! i will never hold back a prayer request or praise report again just because i am scared or shy or whatever… the power of prayer is amazing and infinite! God is Great and if he tells me to speak up again… i sure will!
