Friday prayer request
I just want to share with you a quick note about one of my students and ask for your prayers on her behalf. Her name is Almathe. She's a junior; one of my chemistry students. Almathe has been unwell for a couple of weeks now.
Today I visited her in the hospital where she is being treated for high blood pressure. While my head is filled with images from that hospital experience this doesn't seem the time to share them. What I would ask is that you lift up Almathe in prayer.
I often hear people that pray for healing say 'if it's your will Father, please heal...'. Perhaps we add that part about it being 'your will' because in Jesus example of how we're to pray it says 'your will be done' (Matt 6:10) . Then again, maybe we just don't like the idea of asking God for something big like miraculous healing and then dealing with what it might mean if the person isn't healed, so we add a little way out, as much for ourselves, as for God. If we ask God to heal, and the person isn't healed, we can fall back on that idea that 'it wasn't His will'.
Somehow, I don't think God needs us to give him permission to exercise his own will. And I certainly don't mean to offend anyone about the way they pray. I know this; His Will will be done regardless of me, or in spite of me. Now if you're still following this line of reasoning, and I haven't offended you, take a moment to read Luke 11:1-12. When you're finished pray with me and ask God to heal my student Almathe, not if it's his will, but because he is our father.
Scott
Today I visited her in the hospital where she is being treated for high blood pressure. While my head is filled with images from that hospital experience this doesn't seem the time to share them. What I would ask is that you lift up Almathe in prayer.
I often hear people that pray for healing say 'if it's your will Father, please heal...'. Perhaps we add that part about it being 'your will' because in Jesus example of how we're to pray it says 'your will be done' (Matt 6:10) . Then again, maybe we just don't like the idea of asking God for something big like miraculous healing and then dealing with what it might mean if the person isn't healed, so we add a little way out, as much for ourselves, as for God. If we ask God to heal, and the person isn't healed, we can fall back on that idea that 'it wasn't His will'.
Somehow, I don't think God needs us to give him permission to exercise his own will. And I certainly don't mean to offend anyone about the way they pray. I know this; His Will will be done regardless of me, or in spite of me. Now if you're still following this line of reasoning, and I haven't offended you, take a moment to read Luke 11:1-12. When you're finished pray with me and ask God to heal my student Almathe, not if it's his will, but because he is our father.
Scott
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