24/7 Prayer

Today at LEFC and for this week has been 24 hour prayer, 7 days a week for one full week. I did not sign up for a shift but instead I am the watchmen for all of Saturday. What this entails is that I show up if someone forgets, make sure people show up and try and make sure it runs smoothly. Well sure enough guess what happened? Someone did not show up it just happened to be everyone's favorite shift 3am :(

I cannot say I was exactly excited to get out of bed, borrow a car and drive down to LEFC. I was tired, frustrated, annoyed and overall upset I had to get out of my warm bed. By the time I got there though I prayed that God would take away the problems I was facing, would take away my frustration and give me a soft heart. That is always an interesting prayer to ask because usually we ask for forgiveness, for something to happen, or to help us with struggles. To ask for God to give you a soft heart is a pretty fun thing.

The moment I walked into the prayer room my heart was "broken" I do not like that term but the walls I had put up had broken down. The walls of frustration, annoyance was ultimately ways of getting distracted. The prayer room was a great idea: there was a cross to put up our struggles, posters with freedom, reproducing and networking to put our prayer through that, a place to share what God is to us, a place to thank God for what we have, prayer for missionaries and the list goes on. Quickly those walls I had built down were destroyed.

I was only there for about 45 mins because I was only covering someone's shift but it was a great 45 minutes. Especially through this week where I have been feeling a large amount of struggles. It was nice to be in prayer and reconnect a little bit with God in everything. Today even though I slept less, was woken up in the middle of the night, I was more relaxed then I have been in days. Funny how that works eh? Prayer is a great thing and something I want to work on is spending time each day in indimate prayer with God.

What I mean by that is not just telling God what I want, or what I need, but also listening to him. Sometimes I think we spend so much time telling God we need and forget to actually listen to what God is telling us we need!