God Answers Prayer

Seriously. He does.
I know we hear this said all the time.
But sometimes I feel like we forget this fact.
But I've been seeing this principle at work in my life so much lately.

Last week, for example, God answered a prayer.
My Growth Group has been praying for a girl to come to know Christ and trust Him for salvation.
We've been praying hardcore for her.
And last week, Tuesday, to be exact, she trusted Christ.
She became my sister.
And I've been able to witness a complete turn around in her life.
It truly is incredible.
And I'm so excited to see what God has in store for her.

Today is another example.
I was really having a hard time at seeing myself as beautiful.
(This is something that I struggle with off and on.)
And God brought me to Song of Songs 4,
And He reminded me that He thinks I am beautiful.
It doesn't matter what I think of myself.
He has created me without a flaw, beautiful.
So I was just praying that He would help me see myself as beautiful.
That He would remind me of my beauty inside and out.
So just after I finished talking with Him, I went to the basement to make my lunch.
When I got there, two friends were there eating some lunch and chatting.
And we got to talking about a lot of different things...
one of them happening to be about beauty.
And we were able to encourage one another, reminding each other how beautiful we were.
So two precious friends reminded me of my beauty in the Lord.
It was amazing.
I walked away feeling refreshed and amazed.
My God decided to answer my puny prayer about needed to know that I'm beautiful.
If He would answer that prayer,
What else could/should I be asking?

All too often I put God in a box,
limiting Him to what I know.
What if I started praying for things that are beyond the things I know?
What if I started asking big things from my big God?

Something to ponder the next few days.
Anyway,
God answers prayer.
He always has,
and He always will.
Sometimes we just have to take the time to be still
and listen.