Praises from the Hill

A good friend of mine this week showed me what it means to truly trust the Lord to answer prayer. My friend is a woman who I have known for a little over a year and a half now. When we first started meeting together we began to ask the Lord for two simple things. 1. That her husband and son would stop drinking all the time. 2. That her son would return from the city and move back in with her and her family.
Soon after we began to ask for this, her husband stopped drinking as much, and about 3 -4 months later her son came home and moved himself and his family in with his mom.

Now, whenever we talk about asking the Lord for something, knowing it is only He that can change things, she looks at me with a smile of assurance on her face stating, "Of course Pam, God brought my son back, and he will do this thing as well."

For the last 6 months or more, my friend and I have been praying for a neighbor of hers. She had started studying with us and learning to be a follower of Christ, until my friend informed me that her husband had prohibited her from coming. This week we sat drinking soda under her roof and read the story of the Flood, all three of us amazed at the promise of God etched in the sky after every rain. And my friend just smiled and said, of course God did.

This is what it looks like to ask and believe.

" Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." ~Mark 11:24

"Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." ~John 16:24

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." ~Matthew 7:7

Jesus Said it, Let's Believe it!