Praying about the Small Things, Too
This is from one of my prayer partner wives. Her story really impacted me. And I know it will greatly bless you, too! May you walk in deeper and greater faith in our amazing God!
| All of last year God was really working on me in a couple of areas. |
| One of them was how I always seem to look for Him in the big things and don’t trust how much He cares about the things I deem as small. As a result, I don’t tend to go to Him with EVERY thing. I try to deal with things on my own, sometimes it’s honestly just not thinking something is prayer-worthy, but most of the time it’s because I don’t think I am worthy to be heard or cared about from such a great and mighty God.He has been tenderly showing me how much He really cares about me and the things that are important to me.Soooo….a couple of months before Christmas, something started going wrong with our dryer. Once it got heated up, it would start squealing extremely loud duringthe whole cycle. I would try to stop and restart it, but nothing worked. I just had to wait until itwas done. It was so loud, it was really grating on my nerves and making me crazy. This went on until after Christmas!On top of that, we homeschool, so having all three kids home…well you get the point. My husband said he would try to fix it, but there was never time with Christmas coming.I was convinced we were going to need a new one…looked online and yikes! There’s no way we can afford to get a new dryer, and I didn’t want to keep bringing it up to the hubs. FINALLY it occured to me that I should pray about it. I found myself thinking, “that’s such a silly thing to pray about…I feel guilty about bringing such a small matter before the Lord when there’s so many other more important things…God isn’t really interested in this…I need to grit my teeth here and just deal with the awful noise.”
But He’s so gracious…He gently reminded me of all the ways this past year He has shown Himself to me in small ways…nothing is too big OR too small for the Lord! So I prayed about the dryer…that God would either provide a new one or provide the money to get one, OR that He would just give me the patience to deal with it. Guess what? He answered my prayers, but of course not in the way I asked! |
| The next time I put a load in, lo and behold! there was NO NOISE. And there hasn’t been ever since! Isn’t He sweet? I just wanted to encourage you all with God’s goodness and compassion and faithfulness! 🙂 He is a good Father who delights to give good gifts to those who love Him! I pray that God will show each of you this week, in a small way that may only mean something to you, how much He cares about your life. |
From Peacefulwife:
We are not guaranteed how God might answer prayers. But when we put our faith and trust in Him – we get to see Him move in ways we never could have asked for or imagined! And He will be glorified!
If you would like to share how God has been working in your marriage or your life – you are welcome to comment! I am praying for more stories from other wives – because THIS is the stuff that so profoundly impacts wives and helps them see what a faithful, reliable, trustworthy, omnipotent, wonderful mighty God we serve!
The Peaceful Wife 
What a great story! They actually had a very similar story occurred just last night. We have just moved from the south to the frozen tundra of the Midwest and of course do not have sufficient clothing to keep us warm as we are not used to these temps!
So last night my husband told me to go out and find a good winter jacket as today is supposed to have temps in the single digits. We discussed stores for me to go to and I made my way. And on the way, I actually started having an anxiety attack! God very gently and kindly prodded me to trust him too, saying don’t you trust your heavenly father to provide you with this? I know you need this and I am gracious to give you such things.
I believe he told me the store to go to and told me to trust him. And even as I walked around that store I still doubted…and I did finally get one and it was pretty close to perfect, but i continued to doubt until I wore it outside and it was so warm and when I checked the tag it was down which was what I wanted but all of what I saw was polyester and I was sure this was too!! the whole way I was filled with doubt and worry but God so came through!
God used this example to show me how I have a hard time trusting him with the little things, and that’s why it’s been even harder for me to trust him with big things. It’s really getting in the way of my journey to being respectful because I have huge trust issues with him. He so kindly and graciously said this is a big root we need to start working on…thank you God for being so loving, kind, and faithful to provide despite my doubt and fear!
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Thanks for sharing, Emily!!!! 🙂
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April,
I think you’ll enjoy a similiar story that shows the glory of God in how he takes our seemingly “small” issues and comes through for us in ways we never imagined 🙂
Last November or so, when my husband was still living with me, he woke up in the middle of the night and asked if I could smell the skunk. I had no idea what he was talking about. The next morning, he was trying to figure out where it had come from, and finally we found that skunk must have sprayed something outside our house.
I was the one to discover that it had “moved in” under our back deck, and was sleeping there during the days, causing the skunk smell to ever be present.
Not long after, my husband had to move out of state and I was left with the skunk problem. 😦
I called the landlord, and when he came over, of course the skunk was gone!!
But the next day it returned, and it stayed for weeks……
Until finally, I realized that only GOD could some how get this skunk out of my deck and rid me of this issue!!!!
I am not joking, I prayed for God to somehow remove the skunk, and left it alone. A few days later, I woke up one morning, and the skunk was laying dead in the middle of my back yard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No idea what got it, or killed it. AND IT DIDN’T SMELL AT ALL! It was not like when you drive by a dead skunk and smell it a mile away. You couldn’t smell it!
wow. 🙂
My landlord kindly removed it for me, and even then, some other animal must have taken it away because it’s remains are no longer in the woods.
I prayed and asked God to take care of it, and He did!!!
love,
Amanda
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Satisfied Wife,
Love that! Thank you for sharing. I am always so excited to get to read your stories. 🙂
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