We like to hit God relentlessly with requests and petitions with almost no expectations at times, this hits me as odd. We ask him frequently to heal someone, provide something, make a change, the mountain is never ending, and when it happens, we're blown away. Two missionaries from our church recently visited and shared with us a story of answered prayer. This may seem like an underwhelming statement or conversation, however it's the direction this is going that is the underlying theme to this writing.
Their prayer: The wife (Anchalee) comes from a small village in Thailand and has a heart for people in her situation, so obviously she has a heart for people in similar situations. Anchalee and her husand (Kim) began to pray for the people in the jungle villages that they would know freedom in Christ and find hope in situations that would seem hopeless. They wanted light in the darkness of the jungle.
They however did not expect the answer they received. God not only answered the prayer to send someone for the people, but He chose them. This brings me to the point of this post. When asking God to guide your steps, make sure you're ready to walk. We pray for revival, for change in our family, provisions, so on and so forth, we rarely expect an answer, and even less often expect Him to use us to answer it. On the flip side there's the I prayed for revival but God isn't using ME! That's a whole other can of worms I'll get in to some other time. This is why I say (or I guess in this case write) MAKE SURE YOU'RE READY TO WALK, we should always stay in tune with God's will and where we fit in. Make sure you're walking WITH HIM!! That is the imperative point of this. Without Him we can do nothing, ministry will fail, worship won't happen, evangelism will die; with Him, things flourish.
