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A call to prayer: Bishop's Prayer Pilgrimage
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Personal storyPrayer - expect God to do the unexpectedOne of the things I have learned over years of praying is to expect God to do the unexpected and to answer my prayers in unexpected, and sometimes, unusual ways. I have had to learn not to limit Him by suggesting how He might do whatever I want done, in case He has some ideas of His own about the matter! I marvelled at His unexpected ways when I asked Him for some good friends for my fifteen year-old granddaughter who had got into bad company at school and was in danger of being expelled. He answered by sending along two older boys! Just like her own God-appointed body guards, these young men steered her in the right direction and kept her out of trouble for the remainder of the year. In another example, my brother and his wife had to have their much-loved cat put to sleep, and they missed him terribly. So, of course, I asked the Lord to send a replacement, but what He actually sent was a possum! A baby without a mother turned up in a tree outside their back door, and every evening it was feeding out of their hands. What an awesome God we have who considers the needs of His little furry creatures as well as our own. Indeed, because of God's 'unexpectedness,' we can easily miss our answer! Perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction, or simply not recognising what He has already sent. Sometimes, I think, God answers the intentions of our hearts as much as He does the correctness of our words. In the light of this, I am learning to 'think outside the square,' and to live in the vastness of where He lives. Bev Farmilo is active in the prayer ministry of the St Clements congregation at KingstonThose who plant in tears will harvest with
shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but
they sing as they return with the harvest. Psalm 126:5-6
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