I’m coming in at the skin of my chinny chin chin but it is 11:18pm and still January 2nd! So I am still on target with my ‘challenge’ to do a 365 daily blog. Only thing is you’ll probably view two in one day since I’m so LATE. 😉
The thing is I’m out of my ‘routine’ and I have been trying to spend this rare ‘vacation’ time with family and friends. Which is apparently what God was asking of me today.
It all began this morning when Boundless Mercy, a group of moms that gather together every Wednesday morning in my area to pray for women who have been enslaved by human trafficking and/or work at the brothels/strip clubs. They invited me to join in their prayer session. Eager to continue the networking I was thankful for the opportunity and was blessed with a morning of intense and yet peaceful prayer. Before I left this group of women that I’d never met before till this morning, they insisted on praying over me and Hopeful Hearts Ministry – there is no greater gift than to be covered by the power of prayer.
Inspired and encouraged I realized that I needed to offer this same form of covering to my friends and not just when we are on a retreat or at a bible study! Granted we throw around “I’ll pray for you,” when times are tough and we are very good about coming together and supporting one another in prayer when there is a specific issue that is in direct dire need but I’m talking about day to day life.
I’m almost ashamed to admit that it is easier for me to meet with a stranger or an acquaintance and ask “May I pray over you?” and to sit with them, hand on knee, and cover them in prayer than it is to turn to one of my closest friends when I know they are in the midst of a personal frustration, confusion or hurt and offer the same covering.
I have no idea why that is because I know they wouldn’t turn me down. So the issue is me. I shouldn’t expect them to ask. I should just do it. So in all honesty, if I am to stick to what this blog is about then I have to admit that I came up a tad bit short today. I took in the covering of prayer from strangers, relished in the peace and mercy of the gift and then sat with very good friends, knowing some had hurts they were nursing inside and I didn’t pull them aside and pray over them. 🙁
That’s going to change. They kid with me now and call me ‘bible-y’…well by the end of 2013 they are going to see me coming, roll their eyes and say “Oh my, watch out, here she comes again!” 😉
Let’s not let our friends go without our covering of prayer.
Blessings
Shannon