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Cape May, New Jersey |
Often while praying my mind wanders to a person. I feel God
places this person on my heart, as a burden. I am the
one God is going to use as his answer to that person's prayer.
A few weeks ago X left his work space and found a place where he
could be alone, in the office building, and pray. X's spouse had a sexual
affair with another man. She filed for divorce. X wanted to get help for
their marriage. She refused.
That morning X received a phone call from his father. "Your
mother has cancer. She's not expected to live much longer." X felt his
knees buckle, his breathing difficult, the weight too much to bear. X had to
get alone with the only One who could make a way where there seemed to be no
way. X prayed, "God, help me..."
I was alone, in my backyard by the river, sitting in my prayer
chair when, unknown to me, X made his appeal to God. I already knew about X's
evil-assaulted marriage. As I was prayed the thought came to me, "Call X
now." I did. I believed this thought was coming from God, to me.
I have learned, over years of praying and listening and
risking, that God can come as an interruption, in my "wandering
mind." What could I lose from calling X to check in? This was a
no-lose spiritual situation.
I called X. He answered, "I can't believe you called me
right now. I couldn't stay in my work space and had to get alone with God.
I was asking God for help. And then you called."
We agreed this was no coincidence. It was the orchestrating work
of the Holy Spirit. I was God's answer for X, at the time.
When you pray listen for the voice of God. When this kind of interruptive
thought comes, check it out. You begin to discover that such things are
from God. This increases your faith and
expectation. You will be used by God to help others in their prayer-cries
for mercy.
This is God saying, "I hear X's cry. I am going to answer
X's prayer by placing the thought of X in John's mind."