Not Losing Hope Over No
I’ve been sleeping weird lately. I’ve battled issues with insomnia for years and when I do sleep I toss and turn all night. I rarely get restful sleep. The past few nights I’ve been sleeping lightly and having weird dreams I can’t remember.
As I was lying in bed last night I just prayed that God would allow me to get some sleep, restful sleep.
He didn’t allow that to happen.
Sometimes when God says no to a prayer request it’s easy to get and understand why God probably said no. In others like asking for sleep I just don’t get it.
My prayers last night just didn’t consist of me and my sleep. God brought a continuous flow of people to mind to pray for as I awaited the bliss of dreamland.
Alece – Alece is just going through a lot of crap. Her Thrive Africa center in South Africa was hit by a tornado. She’s dealing with the chance of having to let her SA Nationals go that work at Thrive due to lack of funding. All on top of the personal stuff she’s trying to deal with.
Jenny – Jenny’s come to be a great friend over Twitter & blogging the last month or so. She and her husband John are leaving for Burundi in a couple weeks.
Anne – Anne is a world traveler extraordinaire and speaking guru. Since January she’s been to Haiti, Moldova, and Russia serving and ministering and learning. During her trip to Moldova & Russia she got sick. Quite sick. A sick that sent her home early on a jet plane. Getting home to find out she had a Mono virus. She has spent the last couple weeks resting at home with her husband & kitties and yesterday boarded a plane to speak at Catalyst West Coast. This woman is like the Energizer Bunny. 
Kelli – Kelli got a new job yesterday. Which is exciting. She has two precious (and sometimes precocious) children. Last year they moved from Michigan to Southern California {can you say culture shock??}.
Crystal – I’ve only started following Crystal on Twitter fairly recently. She’s seven years sober from a porn addiction. This week she started tackling another addiction – food. God just really laid on my heart that she would seek Him and find her sustenance in Him rather than food.
Just because for some reason God didn’t allow my body to get the sleep I would have liked doesn’t mean He didn’t hear my pray or that for the women above. He hears and answer’s accordingly. I refuse to lose hope just because I didn’t get an answer to prayer I would have liked.
hi-5! i love praying for people too, especially when insomnia hits. God has even taken it a step further and has woken me up several times from my precious sleep to pray for people..
it started for family, friends… and now he wakes me up to pray for strangers. (well, more like twitter & blog friends)… some who are on your list as well.
you go girl…keep on praying for people! i believe that the gift of intercession is the most precious gift God can give to His children. others are great at preaching, at writing, at doing mission work…and while all that is great… intercessors have the capability get to talk face to face with the living God and feel His heart for others. it’s where the REAL ACTION happens.
At the beginning of the year one of my goals for the year was to become a much more involved prayer. More of a woman of prayer. He’s still working with that. I love praying for people too. I went off Twitter & Facebook for Lent and that was one of the hardest parts is not seeing who said they needed prayer over Twitter.
i often find trouble finding the time to pray…that is why He knows the best time for me to pray for people is at night when my mind is dead (i.e. when im sleeping) ha!
keep on growing in the gift of intercession my friend. much of what you do will be behind closed doors (in secret) but you’ll see that the rewards are so great. it is my desire to continue to grow in this as well. i will be praying that God will shower His grace on you as you learn to stand in the gap and intercede for His children and His world.
Thanks Patricia.
i heart you… this just made my afternoon
i have had a couple of rough days, so just to know God put me in your heart brings tears to my eyes and a light in my heart.
Thank you so much… ((internet hug))
love you girl!
i’m so grateful for your prayers, prudence! thank you.
Always.