Johnson - 2 ~ The Prayer
The Prayer - Isa 30:21 "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”"
About a week before going, in my quiet time I was praying about the upcoming trip. I prayed “Father, you know what you are calling me to, and you know better than I do what my families needs are going to be, I need you to help me and show me what to do and where to go.”
And God spoke. I don’t know if it was a voice in my heart, mind or ears, or some combination but this thought came to me, and I knew it was real.
“I am going to take you someplace where you did not intend to go, I am going to give you the name of the person to ask for before you get there, I am going to tell this person about you and he will give you the next step.”
Was that you God? This seems a little far fetched…
Over the next several days, I just continued to pray about this trip, our needs, and it seemed the same thought consistently came to my mind…
The day before I was to leave to go to Fort Worth, I sensed in my prayer time with the Lord that He said “I have told you what I am going to do, now you need to tell someone of it as a step of faith that you believe I will do what I have said”
I realized it could be easy for me to go to Fort Worth and experience all that God said he would do and come home and say “look what God did, and oh by the way he told me he would do this before I went”. But, that would take little faith. God wanted to stretch my faith and build His story into my life, so, in faith I could say “this is what I believe God has said, we will see what God will do.”
So, I told Diana and Jim my best friend, both knew me well enough that if I said “I think this is what God is saying…” they wouldn’t think I had just fallen off some weird spiritual cliff.
The next day, I drove to Fort Worth. From Wichita to Fort Worth is a 6 hour drive straight down I-35, I was by myself and so I decided to pray, and I prayed most of the way there. Somewhere just beyond Oklahoma City, as I prayed “God, who do you want me to see, where do you want me to go…” the name “Johnson” popped into my mind. “Johnson” I thought, God is this from you, do you have any idea how many “Johnson’s” there could be in Fort Worth? I kept praying and “Johnson” kept coming to my mind.
to find out what happens read: Johnson 3 ~ do what I know to do
About a week before going, in my quiet time I was praying about the upcoming trip. I prayed “Father, you know what you are calling me to, and you know better than I do what my families needs are going to be, I need you to help me and show me what to do and where to go.”
And God spoke. I don’t know if it was a voice in my heart, mind or ears, or some combination but this thought came to me, and I knew it was real.
“I am going to take you someplace where you did not intend to go, I am going to give you the name of the person to ask for before you get there, I am going to tell this person about you and he will give you the next step.”
Was that you God? This seems a little far fetched…
Over the next several days, I just continued to pray about this trip, our needs, and it seemed the same thought consistently came to my mind…
The day before I was to leave to go to Fort Worth, I sensed in my prayer time with the Lord that He said “I have told you what I am going to do, now you need to tell someone of it as a step of faith that you believe I will do what I have said”
I realized it could be easy for me to go to Fort Worth and experience all that God said he would do and come home and say “look what God did, and oh by the way he told me he would do this before I went”. But, that would take little faith. God wanted to stretch my faith and build His story into my life, so, in faith I could say “this is what I believe God has said, we will see what God will do.”
So, I told Diana and Jim my best friend, both knew me well enough that if I said “I think this is what God is saying…” they wouldn’t think I had just fallen off some weird spiritual cliff.
The next day, I drove to Fort Worth. From Wichita to Fort Worth is a 6 hour drive straight down I-35, I was by myself and so I decided to pray, and I prayed most of the way there. Somewhere just beyond Oklahoma City, as I prayed “God, who do you want me to see, where do you want me to go…” the name “Johnson” popped into my mind. “Johnson” I thought, God is this from you, do you have any idea how many “Johnson’s” there could be in Fort Worth? I kept praying and “Johnson” kept coming to my mind.
to find out what happens read: Johnson 3 ~ do what I know to do
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