But
If You Remain In Me And My Words Remain In You,
You
May Ask For Anything You Want,
And
It Will Be Granted!
Scripture
John
15
7 But
if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for
anything you want, and it will be granted!
Observation
It
shouldn't come as a surprise to me that so many of the nurses that I
meet and talk to at the hospital are followers of Jesus Christ. But
every once in a while I run into one that may not as yet seen the
light.
I
asked several nurses at a nurse's station if I could pray for them
and one of the nurses made a face along with some kind of noise like
a grunt or a sigh. It caught my attention and so I asked her, “You
don't believe in prayer?” To which she replied something like, “I
don't pray I usually just cry out!”
The
very moment she said that, before I had a chance to say anything or
even begin to pray there came a voice over the loud speaker
requesting that the rapid response team go immediately to a certain
room on a different floor of the hospital and so off she went. I
yelled out to her … and we are going to pray for you too!
I
say to you and I would have said to her, that I am living proof that
God answers the prayers of his people.
It
is why I love to go to the hospital and talk to patients and I love
to pray with them. Nothing is more important.
I
brag on all the people that prayed for me every chance I get. I still
am overwhelmed with emotion any time I think about how they prayed
for me and they did not give up.
Against
all odds they prayed and they didn't give up. Tears fill my eyes
right now just thinking about what God did because people (many of
you) prayed for me.
The
odds were greater than 95% that I would not survive, the surgeon told
Kathy, “Your husband has less than a 5% chance of surviving from
the operating room up to Intensive Care. He even told his Nurse
Practitioner (who told me a few weeks later) that the surgeon thought
that I would not survive!
At
one time they had 17 drips going into me and had pumped (or dripped)
100 pounds of fluids into me trying to save my life. Everyone who saw
me said that I looked like I was about to “pop” and that I looked
like a “Blimp”. At one point I weighed an unbelievable 289 pounds
… l00 pounds of fluids!
John
15:7 is not a magical formula; it is not meant for us to believe that
we can just name it and claim it. It is all about us having a
relationship that is so close to Jesus that what is on His heart is
also on our heart. And so that when we pray we are praying what is on
the heart of God.
Does
that make sense?
Application
When
I pray, I will pray knowing that God wants me to pray and He wants to
answer my prayers!
How
about you?
James
5:16
16 Confess
your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be
healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and
produces wonderful results.
Matthew
21
21 Then
Jesus told them, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and
don’t doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can
even say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into
the sea,’ and it will happen.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, teach me how to pray. Show me what is on Your heart. Nothing
is too hard for You. What we call miracles are just Your hands at
work. Every day is a miracle. Help me to take advantage of every day
and not waste them on things that don't matter.
I
pray for Kathy Renner today. I pray for healing. I pray for her
husband Don and for their kids and grandkids as they anxiously wait
for Kathy's return home from the hospital.
Acts
12:5
But
while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very
earnestly for him.
1
Samuel 12:23
“As for me,
I will certainly not sin against the Lord by
ending my prayers for you.
And I will continue to teach you what is good and right.
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 30,31; 1 Chronicles 10; Matthew 12
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