God is next to you.

Hello! I want to share a thought with all of you regarding prayer, faith and God’s work. The Lord that I know created us; set the time of grace to give us a chance to go back to the right path and sent his only son to save us all. God is always there for us, willing to receive us, and assist us in many ways. It is the same God that leaves the Holy Spirit to intercede and bring prayers to his throne.

The Lord in His mercy welcomes everybody all the time. There isn’t any person capable to convince me otherwise. We are not perfect and the Lord knows it. Jesus said in the book of Luke, “I came for the sinners to repent”. The Lord in His perfection will show us and assist in fixing our wrongdoings once we accept to hold his hand.  He still gives us the free will to work with him. His work to help us to fix our mistakes might not be what we expected, because in his creative ways lies his wisdom. It is amazing how we are like kids making mistakes in His eyes.

Prayers and miracles.

Prayer doesn’t have to be perfect or have many words. Jesus is his wisdom left an example of prayer with the Lord’s Prayer. Additionally, he left the Holy Spirit in charge of bringing heartfelt prayers to him.  “The Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words”. Isn’t that beautiful? It is this reassurance that gives me comfort when I pray.

The challenges we face in our lives are many and I have seen blessings behind them, invaluable lessons, and even miracles. Unfortunately, we often remember who is in charge only when we go under duress. The Lord knows what we are going through and nothing is impossible for Him. In the book of Luke chapter 6 Jesus reminds us that the Father knows what we need even before we ask.

All prayers are welcome to God. One person’s prayer is not more powerful than another. We are all the same in God’s eyes. Faith plays a big role in the answer to those prayers even though I personally have witnessed people’s healing without faith in God. God is not only powerful, but merciful.

Jesus sent us a message during a vision I received. “Tell everybody that whenever they start praying I’m already there, many see me, but don’t believe it”. We don’t have to see Him to believe. The Lord has not forgotten us and He still communicates with us. His messages didn’t end during biblical times. The God I know is a living God and if He still ask us to pray that means He listens to all prayers.
Miracles happen everyday!

Only those who are willing to receive miracles will see them. We, God’s favorite children receive miracles everyday. Good people, bad people, people of faith, people without faith, people who seem to have everything set up for life, and those with nothing. We all deserve His love and there is no perfect formula for miracles happen.  Also, we receive the miracles that the Lord knows in His immense wisdom we need. We, in our limited minds, think miracles have to hit world wide headlines. Maybe a family member starts praying only after your health failed, and that’s a miracle in itself. Sometimes it takes a physical health challenge to turn a cold hearted person into one that starts working on art crafts to assist others.

The Lord wants your heart and devotion and may provide challenges that move you away from a superficial life that keeps you from enjoying his creation. There are endless ways of miracles happening and those ways can happen after what we think is something bad like losing your job or having an accident.

We can’t condition our devotion to God based on whether or not we get the miracles we want.

The answer to our prayers might not match with the list of our requirements. It’s difficult to remember that. We can also add in our daily prayers, “Help me dear Lord to accept your will”.

Faith moves mountains.

We can ask for faith in our prayers too. There are amazing biblical examples of faith like  the woman who was bleeding and was healed after a small touch on Jesus’ garment. Jesus felt her faith that she managed to move around the crowd just to touch him. He said it was her faith that healed her.

Another example was the faith the centurion when his servant was ill and he went to see Jesus and asked for his healing. When Jesus asked him if he needed him to go to heal him the centurion said quote, “Lord, I don’t deserve you to go under my roof But just say the word. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.”

“26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?- Mathew 6:26

Yes! we are His favorites! Thank you for your time and God bless us all.

Elizabeth Byrne.