Fasting Day Three

Day Three, yay God, remember I had said that I was asking the Lord for restoration and discernment....well...let me tell you that I had an amazing conversation with my son. We covered a huge area and I think we both learned some things about each other, and ourselves, also the way that we each think, or maybe I should say the way that we come at a particular issue.

What we dealt with last evening was a bunch of different subject and I think I will only cover some of them here.  One of the subjects was prayer.....

The first Scripture is 

Luke 9 (and I want to point to verses 1 and 2, for my son) speaks of praying and this is the form of communication with God, this is what Jesus was doing with God.

The second Scripture is James 2 speaks to us participating in our prayers...if we pray for the homeless and we ask the Lord to help these people stay warm and to stay feed and to provide them with a warm place to be.  If we have the capability to help and to solve some of these problems, and do nothing, aren't our prayers empty and basically meaningless? 

One of the the things we spoke about was when prayers aren't answered...

Second Corinthians verse 12...Paul speaks about boasting for a man who had gone up to the third heaven and that this man was unable to boast about this.  So Paul was wanting to boast for this man. But Paul thought better of the boasting, because he didn't want people to think more of him than they should, but Paul I think still had the thought in his head.  And just to play it safe God gave something to Paul to help him to not be to puffed up.  Do you all remember what it was that God gave him.   God gave him a thorn in his flesh.  And it must have been someplace on his body that he couldn't get to, because he had to ask God to take care of this thorn, and what does God say to Paul, God say "my grace is sufficient for you."  In other words God wanted Paul to be reminded regularly that God was there,  God was sort of Paul's thorn.  You know when you are considering do something and you know that you shouldn't....that is God trying to speak to you. That is God being a thorn in your flesh. And that is God saying to you my Grace is sufficient for you and I(God) am going to keep being a thorn in your side, maybe until you stop boasting or perhaps your form of boasting is misbehaving or be unkind.  So stop it!  And in other words when we pray if we don't get an answer to our prayers, maybe you just aren't hearing Gods answer, maybe He is saying no or wait...oh that is tough.  But something we must learn to do is listen.

Now it is time for me to get ready for work and this morning I will be walking down the road and across the creek and up the road to work.  Aren't I blessed, I thinks so..who of you can walk thru the woods to get to work? Now you go and be a blessing.  Oh and don't forget to stay on the Daniel diet and praise God as you do this.  Amen and Amen