WALKING WITH GOD

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prayer

What purpose was I created for?

By asking myself this crucial question, I came to grasp what "Prayer" is. God spoke things into being through the supernatural power of His Word. In Genesis 1:3, God says, "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." At the present moment, I realize that prayer is to "manifest" or a way or means to manifest the words uttered. Through learning and feasting on the Holy Word of God on a daily basis, I frequently pray for my word to be manifested, whether I'm "wanting" God to hear my Thanksgiving, Intercession, or Praise. This act of prayer is appropriate because I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, as the Holy Bible guides us  - but what about God's Will as the first order? 

In nature, prayer is personally discharged, but we frequently delude ourselves into believing that everything is about our point of view, and I have had many of my points of view dashed to naught. God knowing what He created me for, and God knowing what I need to fulfill His prophecy through me - I then believe God knows what I need.

I prayed at a hospital for a boy named Zion, whose life was in danger a few months after birth. The events which led me to recognize that God intended me to be there for this delicate life convinced me that the boy was going to be saved by God.  I was compelled to pray by God The Holy Spirit since I didn't know what God's Will was for the boy's and his parents' lives. Yet the young boy's life on earth was ended.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.” [Romans‬ ‭8:26-27‬]‬‬‬

Needs and wants

Everything on earth was made by God - Psalm 24:1. The enemy uses deception to trick people in an attempt to ruin what God has made. God brought about the wilderness, which my family and I lived through without realizing we had entered the wilderness season.

Throughout the wilderness, my wife, our kids, and I prayed constantly for comfort and other wants. At a certain point, a lot of people prayed for us without the knowledge of God's purpose for our lives. God the Holy Spirit revealed to me and my wife that God had intended for us to be sent into the wilderness. Despite our awareness, we continued to pray for the suffering to lessen until I was pain-free and could no longer resist God's will. God provided for our needs along the way as we realized what we required from that point on. And our praying supernaturally re-aligned with the revelations from God the Holy Spirit.

In retrospect, I would have requested God to locate another individual or family if I had known at the outset what He had planned and purposed for our rough wilderness seasons and the path through them. However, we didn't originate by ourselves; rather, God created me and the rest of us for His pleasure.

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.””[Jesus in, Matthew‬ ‭26:39].‬‬‬

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parenting in the wilderness

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The Lord appeared to us in the past saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. [Jeremiah 31:3]

I was able to feel the Father's love in the quiet of the wilderness. As we journeyed through everything, trying to protect, teach, and love and care for our children, I realized that the love I have for them could only come from God. This is because, up until that point in my life, I had been through a circumstance that was difficult for me to understand, extremely difficult for me to go through, and extremely difficult for my children to go through too. I saw His hand and love doing the same for me in all that I was going through in all that I am as his child.

I had the opportunity to observe parenting through his eyes, even though God Almighty alone does it flawlessly.

I was able to witness firsthand what it looks like when God walks with us as his children through the highs and lows, joyous occasions and heartbreaking times, of life by going on this journey with my kids. How he must put up with our complaining and frequent ungratefulness when things do not turn out the way we had hoped or desired, when we act out because we are desperate to get what we want, right now! to the way he gently guides, chastises, and corrects us to help us see things from a heavenly perspective. His viewpoint.

I distinctly recall saying, "Lord, I understand now." At that moment, I was expressing that I had finally come to understand, if only a little bit, the depth of his love for me; I don't think I can fully comprehend it's depth, but raising my kids in extremely difficult conditions had led me to this realization. That day, a passage from the book of Romans came to life for me.

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? ... No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below — indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Romans 8:35, 37-39]

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