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I am a firm believer that whatever is going on in your life, the needs are to be covered in prayer. Some question, should you, or how you should state your request to others as important or not. If it’s important to you, it’s important to God. I also know some might even go over the top. However what is important is not to take any and all prayer needs lightly. To ask prayer for what is normal to even urgent, or an immediate emergency, makes no difference. God not only already knows the issues, but I believe He eagerly is awaiting your partition and knows how best to handle that request that you have.
I was in the Military and when I had a typing test I would call back to my home church and say I need the prayer cannons to be fired for me. I needed God to help me pass the test. You see I had what I called my numble fumble fingers. (to grope about clumsily , in an absent-minded way. to do hesitantly or awkwardly) This was on a manual, old fashion typewriter. No Spell check. I had to get 48 words per minute in 3 minute with only 3 or less mistakes. I had a hard time spelling. Even now with word process and having word spelled check correctly, I still have issues. It will take me several hours to prepare this 1,709 word document.
I knew of a person who some might call strange how she went about praying for everything. On one instance she needed someone to do some remodeling work at her home. I had recommended a personal friend of mine who was a contractor to her to do the work. He asks her what she wanted to do with the Kitchen Cabinets. She turned herself away from him and started praying what to do. In just a few seconds she turned back around and said “the Father said Paint them”. To which the next question was, what color, and she once again turned around again and prayed and a few second turning herself around said “the Father said paint them white. For every question my contractor friend asks her, she would do the same thing.
One person said about me I will call and ask prayer for a hang nail. Guilty as charged. When I am traveling to a store I will start praying for a good parking space. You see my walking ability is very painful so I need to search for a spot close to the front. I did not have a handy cap sign to park in those reserved spots and I wasn’t about to park where it wasn’t legal for me. When I found a spot I thanked the Lord for His grace for that spot. The need was there and it was important to me. God always open the spot that I am in need of. It is not an emergency but important to me and important to God because I had ask. Today I had a water issue that started this whole commentary and the start of requesting prayer. It began as “I Need Prayer for etc, etc”,. Then wouldn’t you know it my long winded explanation writings or hopefully God changed the direction of this effort. This is the circumstances and how God was in the middle of it. Thursday afternoon for unknown reasons the water pressure went down. My first thought was a water break somewhere close and so I called the water department at about 3PM and heard nothing from them. I called back at before 5 and the person I spoke with said “yes sir I put the work order in and they replied OK. I don’t know what they meant but I will again put in another request in”. I again did not hear from them and it might be late in the night before the pressure would be built back up. This morning when I woke up no pressure so I called the water office again and this time someone came to the back door and knocked. He said your front water facet is leaking. (Monday morning I am going to speak to the person of the water department crew about the lack of response of the city crew and not following up on work orders.) Well I went out saw the yard and below it was well watered and the street had liquid running in the drain. I called the land lord (Whom is awesome) and she called someone to fix it. In the mean time I saw that the PVC Glue had let go and the water was just none stop. The city turned the water off, and I again called the land lord to tell her it wasn’t as bad as I first imagined it was. (Waiting for the bill to see how bad it will be, that going to be expensive) I was told a plumbing company was called. Now here I am and water is needed to flush the toilet during the day, if you catch my smelly drift. (LOL) The plumbing company had no idea when it would have someone come to fix it because there were work orders ahead of mine. What could I say to make things speed up or push me to the head of the line? Now I know what some will say, Suck it up you big cry baby, and that’s what I heard from the Lord. I know. I need to get some of the prayer warriors to pray for this that “the person will be able to quickly and easily repair, fix or finish the work orders”. Please keep in mind the last sentence for future reference. Then God again steeped in and said “You need to look up some scripture. You see there will be somehow, someone that will read this and draw a certain perception, YOU BIG CRY BABY. No I know the power of prayer regardless of your point of perception. So I looked and I hope you will read them as well.
KJV
Psalm 55:
22. Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
23. But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
3. Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
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23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
24. Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
25. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
27. Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
3. Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Philippians 4:
4. Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
5. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
So while I was pondering how to write the prayer request, I got a call from the service person. He was on his way. That’s not the end of the writing. When He got here I was sharing in part what I just wrote. The work orders and so and he showed me the work orders that was before me, and he said they went faster than he expected. Remember the statement above I said remember this. I need to get some of the prayer warriors to pray for this that “the person will be able to quickly and easily repair, fix or finish the work orders”.