So Far It Has Been a Prayer Journey

Journeys turn into prayer journeys when there seem to be many things happening outside of our control. Well, that’s just real, daily life right? As we approach the start of our conference with 50 people from five nations, we feel like we have been pushed onto that prayer ride.

First of all, as I wrote to our prayer team last week, “With a busy travel week Brooks and I feel slightly under-prayed for what's coming and the challenges already rising up.”

And then, yes, those challenges kept coming!

• Key leader’s mother turned sick and was hospitalized
• Problems getting passports at the last minute
• New yellow fever requirements at the border of Uganda

And then, even after calling on you to join us in prayer, two teams (17 people) were stranded at a flooded river in Rwanda on the day they were due to arrive in Uganda.

So it turned into a season of praying and waiting and seeing how God would take all of the pieces that seem out of control and weave them into His plan.

The great thing about it all is the reminder of how life really works:

• Life out of control (isn’t it always on some level truly out of our control?)
• Call on God, “Help.” And He is always there just wanting to break into our lives in both relationship and blessing.
• Wait. God works. We don’t know the timeframe or what it will look like, but God works even when things don’t work out according to our own planning. (The 17 came a day late when all was said and done.)
• Watch. He weaves it together yet one more time in a beautiful way. (The late arrivers built relationship among one another and the change in schedule for the rest of the conference proved to be beneficial.)

I have been reading one of Mike Bickle’s books on prayer in which he says, “weak people accomplish much with their prayers when they are in agreement with God.”

Okay, good. I qualify for the weak people part and still God has committed Himself to me. After all, so much of real life, on any given day, is outside my control, so it’s great to be walking it out in conversation and trust in the One who is.

Your friendship means much in these seasons… and the journey continues…