Humbled

I haven't had anything interesting to say in the last few weeks! What's wrong with me!! =) Hopefully something interesting will come up soon.

Perhaps I will tell you about the great God-thing that happened last weekend! Always good to share when He does something to blow your socks off. So back in May-June timeframe, I really felt the push to be praying for a couple of friends of mine. Didn't really know anything about anything they were doing, but I just felt this strong urge in my heart to pray for them. To pray hard. Like God saying, "These people need alot of prayer right now, so, Lisa, get started!" So I did. Probably not as much as I could have or should have, but I prayed. This need to pray for them continued through recently. Now last week I had the privilege of having a great extended conversation with one of them. About an hour and a half into our conversation, she spills about these really bad things that have been happening, and that in May was the worst of it. My heart sank and my jaw nearly hit the floor. It's heartbreaking any time you are aware of a really deep struggle in anyone's life that you care about, but this seemed to cut me deep. Of course it immediately entered my brain that that was right when God was having me pray for them. I was humbled. I told her that I had been praying for them during that time. I hope she was encouraged by that. To know that God was working on it and doing something about it, even if she didn't know or couldn't see. To have that work of God be so blatant, so concrete, so real. People think that faith is all about something intangible, abstract, in the heart and mind. There are wonderful times when God shows himself nearly in the flesh. When he does something so perfect that hits you in the face. You can't help but feel the blow physically. Joy.