This month one of our senior pastors, Pastor Marci, has been doing an incredible series on Positions of Prayer. It's been both encouraging and thought provoking.
On the way home from dropping Ronan off at school this morning I was thinking on many things as we women tend to do. Among them was summer plans to go visit family in Michigan.
I was reminded of an experience that I had last summer visiting and it brought me full circle back to thinking on the power of prayer!
Last summer our visit was rather long and, as I had no vehicle of my own, I drove whatever vehicle happened to be free (my family is very cool like that). I had driven my Mom's car, my Dad's truck, and both my youngest brother and his wife's vehicles. They are all new vehicles with fancy, remote car starting and very quiet running compared to what I drive.
One day I had to drive my brother Ben's truck to go pick up our kids. I got in, turned the key in the ignition, and started to go. It had been parked on a little, hilly spot and as I drove down the hill I realized that the steering wheel was incredibly hard to turn and wrestled it to the left enough to avoid hitting the power pole on the other side of the driveway.
I was a little shaken and starting to feel very annoyed that no one had bothered to mention that Ben's truck had no power steering! As I sat there contemplating whether I would have the strength to steer it to my location a thought hit me. "This is a diesel truck. Diesel trucks make a lot of noise. I don't hear any noise!" Sure enough, I "restarted" the truck and it fired up, I had been "driving" a vehicle with no power! I'd become so used to the quiet, quick-starting vehicles that I had assumed there was power when I turned the key but it actually needed to turn in the ignition just a bit longer.
That incident made me think on prayer and how without the power of prayer we struggle with direction in our lives. Pastor Marci said last night, "Prayer should be purpose driven and motivated by the knowledge of God's will." She also said this, "If you'll acknowledge God every day, He'll make your paths straight."
We may be pulling and tugging and turning ever so slightly because of OUR efforts but when we turn on the power of prayer His guidance will make those turns and twists so much easier because we have His strength instead of our own!
If you can I highly recommend listening to this series, I've included the link below.
https://soundcloud.com/anchorfaith/positions-of-prayer
