Isaiah 65:24
Before they call I will answer;
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
We live in a time we really want to see answered prayer. And, yes, Covid is still active. But the population of the USA says 2/3rd's are closer to God and read Scripture more than before.
Life experiences tell us Christians know God answers their prayers. Today, I had this occur to me. Yesterday's Post was titled, "Lifted Up".
Today, this week, has been, "remember how many years ago" week:
My mother had her 88th Birthday. Let's see, Edward and I have been married 35 years, we married when I was 22 years old and our niece Brooke was born the next year, she is 34. She married in 2011, she and Brad have been married ten years, and now they are having their first child. Making this, Susan and Brad's first grandchild!
My mother and mother-in-law are both 30 years apart from me, born in 1933, so this is the day of my mother's 88th birthday. We moved her from her house of 47 years. And travel from our house of 20 years once and twice a week for six months to visit both my mother and Edward's mother.
Mother had a Chocolate Mouse Birthday Cake, and I was hurrying outside her house.
I fell really hard in the front yard and landed on the sidewalk. I landed on my hand and knee, my hand had part of my knee on my hand. I cried like a child, loudly and sobbing, it hurt so badly. I couldn't even move off from the terrible position. The fall was so swift, I wasn't aware I was falling.
When I finally felt I could move, my hand, my whole left hand, didn't move. It was utterly, it was utterly broken. The fingers were splayed apart. My hand, I couldn't get it to move curl or straight, it just was limp. Finally, my hand would move, but not my fingers. And I knew that I'd have to go to the ER until Friday. Then I realized my knee hurt. Edward had arrived and I was sobbing loudly, unable to stop.
15 minutes later, I could stand up and sob, still like a child. By the time I could stand up, my hand worked perfectly and has a small scrape. Pebbles dotted my palm where my had had landed on the sidewalk. I know my hand didn't work and looked frozen and useless.
Within 30 minutes, we were traveling home. Moving briskly down the interstate. And as we drove home, we saw a huge rainbow. This was a mere tens of minutes later, from the accident, and I had amazingly recovered from. But I just couldn't look for the whole Rainbow. I was too jarred and pained to twist, to look for the whole rainbow by Downtown Dallas about 8 pm.
Genesis 9:12-17 LIFE
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
I said to the Lord, Yes Jesus, Life! I prayed if you want me to see the whole Rainbow, I know you healed my hand. And then there was a shadow, a double Rainbow. And I said, "GOOD WITH ME!
THANK YOU, LORD JESUS CHRIST!"
And then the whole Rainbow appeared bottom to top the beginning and the end.
As I sat to write the Post, I just realized the Post is, "Lifted Up". Jesus the Lord is GOOD!
Abba, Father,
Dwell in us.
With the Light of Jesus Christ,
help us to be a joy for You to know us.
We want to seek You first.
And end well.
We earnestly seek this blessing for those we Love
and give You thanks for the people You have given us.
So many prayers, You uphold the Universe by Your Word.
And we pray diligently, sometimes for years like
Grandmother Anita for her beloved son, Jimmy.
And 7 decades of Prayer became Joy.
Today, I cried like a small child for the hurt felt in an accident.
And suddenly, before I could even ask, in the shock, hurt and surprise,
I didn't even pray yet, just cried.
Your Love and Mercy are overwhelming.
Thank You.
Bless our State,
we are experiencing so many new Covid cases in Texas and surrounding Houston.
The vaccinated are unharmed, mostly.
We pray for Haiti and Afghanistan.
For our Nation to rebuild and heal, health, hearts and employment to
Your Glory, Jesus Christ.
We ask Your Help for all the world.
And rest all our daily concerns
in Your Capable Hands and Love.
Grace upon Grace.
Thank You, Jesus. Amen.
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