Connected

I've said before what an awesome thing it is to have the ear of God who created the universe. But you know how things go sometimes. Sometimes you start to doubt yourself or doubt God. Sometimes you're not sure if you're being led by the Spirit or just making something up in your head. Sometimes you're not sure that you believe some of the things you say.

So check this out.

Last week I got this push from the Spirit to give the "I Dare You To Pray This" post I printed out to this woman at work. I thought that was kind of weird and tried to ignore it. Not really a good idea. I said to God, "Look, that seems weird; I don't have a Bible with my story like I like to give out and so on." Trying to get off the hook you see. "Go get one out of your office." Oh bother.

Turns out I did have one Bible left sitting in my office. So I brought the Bible, my printed out story, and the "Dare Prayer" to this woman and shared a little bit with her, stumbling and bumbling through it per usual. I found it difficult to talk to girls in high school and not much has changed. She thought that was nice and thanked me and I left for home.

On the way home, something I listened to the man Francis Chan talking about -- related to what I said up at the top -- just how awesome it was to see answered prayers, and not just pie in the sky could be anything answered prayers, but specific answers to specific prayers. With that going in my head, and some doubts running around as well, I went to God. I said something like "If this is really from you, would you please show me something real out of it? Just give me something from this woman that it wasn't all in my head."

Fast forward to the next day. When I walked into her building she told me that she hadn't read the Bible for some time and she started reading it again and that it was very nice of me to share that with her. I thought "Thanks, God, you did it!" I went home and bragged about my God to Jamie, as if she didn't get already what takes me a good thwomping in the head.

I thought that was it and was happy with the answer. I didn't ask for much, but I did ask for something specific.

Now fast forward to this morning. I walked into her building again. You know what she told me? One of her friends passed away over the weekend, and that the reading in the Bible she had been doing prepared her for it, as she never lost someone close and young like that before. And not only that. She told me that she wanted to share that with me to confirm that what I felt was real and that it was the right thing to do.

Holy Spirit, Batman. Don't you tell me my God isn't real or doesn't speak to me or doesn't listen to me. I'll take the ever increasing pile of evidence in my own life over whatever you've got.