In prayer this morning, as I let my mind wonder into the heavens, as I laid my head back, looking up through the branches of the big tree in my yard that allows me so many hours of shaded comfort each day, I am not without irritants on a daily basis, one being FLIES, each summer around the 4th of July the flies come in and they pester, they are everywhere, they try to be the life of every party!!! UGH, they stay, they irritate until around labor day and then as quickly as they came,,,,they leave! I love to sit outside and try to be of the mindset that I will ignore them, I will not allow them to irk me, I will not allow them to push me inside...some days I win and some days they win! This morning they seem to be more zealous and are everywhere! As I was praying, I could feel them landing on me, I could hear them buzzing around my ear, I could feel my body beginning to tense up and I could feel myself ready to go into a full arm flapping, hand slapping fit! I then begin to realize that they are at their worst when I am praying, they irritate me the most when I am chatting with my Father in Heaven! WOW, really?????? Really, does satan want me not to talk to God that strongly? To use nasty, disgusting flies to try and stop me??? Boy he will stop at nothing to try and throw distraction into the mix just to keep us from fellowship with God..ha, ha, ha.......YOU LOSE!!! I continued to pray, I totally let the irritant go and prayed with more fervor than usual! Today I would love to hear from you, I am sure when you settle yourself in for prayer that you are plagued with distraction, tell us how you handle not allowing your conversation to be altered, how you deal with the outside irritants who work so diligently at trying to stop the direct line you have through Christ to ask for mercies and graces? Many question prayer, many do not believe that it is more than words coming out of their mouths and then vaporizing into the air! Many pray, pray, pray, but never with true intent from their hearts, they pray because that is what they have been taught, but they are not really "getting it" I know when the irritants are the strongest, I am really in the right arena, I have my armor on and am ready for battle, thus satan has to enter the arena to see if he can stop the win! NOT on your life will I give in, I have seen prayer produce miracles, I have seen prayers answered, I have seen the power of his promise come to fruition when he is asked humbly for assistance. I ask God this day to bless each of you with determination to fight, with will to push the irritant away, with the spirit to recognize the battle and with the strength to WIN! Father I ask that you wrap your arms around my family and friends and be the shield they need today to keep satan out of their lives, I ask that you shine light upon each of them that will act as a repellant against the irritant, I ask these mercies humbly in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, amen!
I look forward to hearing how you have knocked satan out, how you have blocked him from stopping what is important to you, how you have clung fast to your faith and recognized that the evil force here on earth will never stop trying to win his battle and how you have become so strong against him! Please leave comments so that others can draw hope from your example, leave comments so that you might touch the heart of someone filled with doubt, and leave comments so that we might liken ourselves to Christ, there is belief in numbers, when we read inspiration it warms our hearts, when we look upon others faith and see that they struggle just as we do, we gain strength, share with us today so that we might continue to be strong soldiers in God's army:) I love each of you and pray for peace in your hearts this day,..onward Christian soldiers!!!!
