Effective, Fervent Prayer
FERVENT PRAYER means we do not quit easily. Fervent prayer means we purposefully spend sufficient time in intercession. Fervent prayer means we cry out to the Father, sometimes in tears, with our heart and soul. Fervent prayer comes as the Holy Spirit assists us in praying with groanings too deep for words. (Rom. 8:26).
After my prayers this morning, I felt a need to open my book "Experiencing GOD Day-by-day" to find the readings for July 30, BUT, I accidentally opened this page and found the verse on top highlighted in green which I did some few years ago, the first time I had read the verse. I took it as a sign of something, I just don't know WHAT, yet, I just know it's a sign because I believe that whenever we come accross something which is unexpected or something not ordinary, we must give some importance because there are always some messages and all we have to do is read in between the lines. And that I always do. I always pray fervently and it really works, sometimes God answers spontaneously, sometimes DON'T, but we have to be very patient because HE DOES ANSWERS and gives the best, IN HIS TIME, for purposes which ONLY HIM KNOWS.
When I was 19 years old, I was already working then, and sort of bread winner at a young age, I graduated College at the age of 18 and a half years old, I started praying for something. The prayer request was something big, but my intention for that prayer was not for me but for my family. Father, mother, eight siblings. I was still single then. Everyday of my life, apart from my other prayers, I fervently pray for this particular request. I did not cease from praying this particular request, until the time I got married, which was eight years after, had my own family, and until such time that my two children were already big. Somehow, I stopped from asking for this request but went on with my daily prayers and other request. I just said to myself, perhaps I do not deserve what I was asking for, reason why that particular prayer request what not answered. I totally forgot that prayer, but one day, after almost 26 years, I got the answer to that prayer almost exactly what I had asked for. It did not sinked into my mind at once that it was the answer , it took me sometime to discern it. But GOD gave it to me in HIS own time. The reason for such a very long period of time HE gave me what I was asking for, was because HE wanted me to use it instead with my OWN family, my Husband and my Children, rather than the family I had when I was still single. He wanted me to use it for a different purpose rather than the purpose I had in mine back then, because no matter how much we think that our purpose is noble, still God will give us a hand to serve a purpose noblier than we thought of.
Perhaps the reason why I came accross this verse once again is because I have some prayer request for the moment, which I had been praying for, for quite sometime now, and God is telling me, WAIT, I will answer in my own time. Again, just be patient.
I will GOD, but please be patient with me also because I will never stop from praying, I have no one to turn to, ONLY YOU. YOU'RE all I have. Love YOU, GOD.
