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So I was able to share with my church family yesterday. It was really great to share with so many faithful prayer warriors who have been lifting my family and I up over the last 6 months. God provided the grace I needed to not bawl through it. I crammed my heels into the podium and after I shared how God has healed me, I put on my heels and walked down the center aile. I honestly thought I would never again be able to wear heels! God is amazing!



The really amazing thing was as I prepared for sunday I discovered another layer to the story. I was searching for a way to close my message and I was looking for a scripture on tears. My Granny had talked of a passage that says how all of our tears are being saved up and will be poured out for God's glory when we get to heaven. If you know where that is, let me know. Or I'll just have to remember to as Gran. Anyhow, the passage the Lord lead me to was 2nd Kings 20 on Hezekiah.



Well ever since the 1st time I read though Kings, i was struck by Hezekiah. This is my all-time favorite passage on prayer. We are told may times throughout scripture to be bold in our prayers, but I think most of us ask halfheartedly. We know God knows best and we give in rather then pressing on, on our knees. Well Hezekiah did not give in to the message from God delivered by Isaiah the prophet. It tells us in Chapter 20:1-5 Hezekiah was told he was sick and would not recover. Hezekiah wept bitterly and pleaded with the Lord and by verse 5 God sent Isaiah back with a new message. "I have heard your prayers, I have seen your tears, I will heal you." I was blown away. This passage that spoke to me, so vividly (almost 10 years ago) the first time I read it, was exactly the words that God sent to me through Charles.

I think often times God is waiting on us. To be bold in our prayers, to persist, to continue to lift one another up. He is faithful to us as we are faithful to him. Be bold in your prayers! God wants to hear from you. Things do not always get answered in the way we think they should. Of course, God's Will, will be done. And His way is always the best way! But it could it be that he is just waiting on us to intercede...?