Well, dear Paul, how wonderful you are here. We have two things now to pray about specifically, and both are very important. Grant is finding himself in a uniquely strange situation--he got saved in the middle of a wild happy college party phase. There are of course things about this that are far from perfect. It is perfect that he got saved now before he could trash his life up good wandering around on his own, or either drift so far from God that he would never find the hidden path back to Him. Please keep Grant in your prayers and we know that for every worldly situation He takes away, He always has something that we will be happier with in the first place.
This of course is a complete mystery which no one understands until they live it.
Also pray that Grant can both be a Witness and at this moment be in the world but not of the world, and be able to enjoy life more abundantly without falling in any traps set for him. Many, many traps will be set for him, for sure, and it is a balancing act which has been done many millions of times, and can and will be done again, to the Glory of God the Father. I don't think it was any different in 1200. Maybe things were even more fun in 1200, and they just wore different clothes. We'll never know until we all get together to talk it over.
Something to keep in prayer.
As for married couples having children, that seems like the most unselfish and normal prayer we could possibly pray out of millions of prayers.
So, how could this possibly NOT be God's will? That's the only reason He tells people to get married and stay married--so children produced will be taken care of sanely.
And it is written throughout that children are a blessing of the Lord. You are in a position to receive the blessing and you have
done what God has laid out as His plan. You're married and you want children. This seems a very simple thing for God to do.
FATHER GOD, FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WE COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST TO ASK THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF BLESSING OF CHILDREN BE APPLIED TO PAUL AND LISA. IT IS WRITTEN THAT YOU WITHHOLD NO GOOD THING FROM THOSE YOU LOVE AND WHO LOVE YOU, SO YOU ARE NOT WITHHOLDING.
WHATEVER SMALL MEASURE OF CHEMISTRY IS OFF, FATHER GOD, WE ASK DIVINE HEALING IN THEIR BODIES THAT THIS MOST NATURAL PROCESS YOU HAVE SET IN MOTION WILL COME TO PASS JUST LIKE BREATHING. IT IS WRITTEN THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BREATH, AND WE ASK THAT YOU BREATH LIFE INTO THIS MARRIAGE WHICH IS IN YOUR PERFECT WILL. THIS IS SUCH AN EASY THING FOR YOU, FATHER GOD, AND IT IS WRITTEN THAT CHILDREN ARE AN INHERITANCE FROM THE LORD. IT IS WRITTEN THAT "THUS SHALL THE MAN BE BLESSED THAT FEARETH THE LORD." WE ASK IN JESUS' NAME THAT YOU REMOVE ALL MEDICAL HINDRANCE FROM PAUL AND LISA.
WE ASK THESE THINGS IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL ANSWER OUR PRAYERS IF WE PRAY AS YOU, PRECIOUS LORD JESUS, TOLD US TO. TO ASK THE FATHER IN YOUR NAME AND HE WILL DO IT.
And as Jesus instructed us to pray:
Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Holy is your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done,
on Earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive one another.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever and ever.
Amen. |
