5 days left SIS!!! Can you believe it? It seems like just a couple
weeks ago we were starting this challenge with Day 1 Chapter titled, “Get Ready,”
now we are on day 35 and it feels Amazing!! I will be the first to admit, when
I first agreed to do this challenge I completely cringed at a 40 day
commitment. Did anyone else feel the same way? I mean, it’s only natural right?
We start to have all of these thoughts that circle around all the reasons we
shouldn’t do things and barely pay any attention to the many benefits of why we
SHOULD move forward anyhow!
This chapter titled “The Longest Lever” is based off a
partial passage from Zechariah 4:10 which reads, “Do not despise small
beginnings.” I have heard many variations of this same passage so many times
throughout my life. When faced with a dilemma or a new task people have always
said “It’s the small steps that count,” “You have to start somewhere,” or my
favorite, “it’s all about humble beginnings.”
Many times as we strive to get closer to Christ we can often
get discouraged. I know I have. Whether
it’s personal situations going wrong, prayers not being answered in the manner
we thought they would, or we just feel defeated; we sometimes can feel like
“God must not be hearing me.” But that’s where you and I were wrong SIS. God
loves and honors our prayers! Batterson says, “our prayers have the potential
to rewrite history.” I know you are
thinking “we have the ability to rewrite history?”
The answer is a bold “Yes.” “How” you ask? By using prayer as our lever!
Batterson describes a lever as something that “amplifies the
input force to provide a greater output force.
Simply put, the longer the lever, the greater the leverage.” Every time
we kneel in prayer with a humble heart Batterson says, “God will
extend His mighty hand on our behalf. He will leverage us in ways that are
humanly impossible.” In other
words, we need to do something so small as humbling ourselves before God in
prayer and in return He will do something so extraordinary to take care of the
rest! Now does it sound like we can
rewrite History? Yup, with God and prayer we surely CAN!!
When we signed up to do this prayer challenge, for many of
us—including myself—this was a humble
(small) beginning that was talked about in our key passage Zechariah 4:10.
Batterson says “Like a parent that celebrates a baby’s first step, our heavenly
Father rejoices when we take the smallest of steps in the right direction. And
those small steps become giant leaps in God’s Kingdom.” So whatever challenges
you may be currently facing stay encouraged SIS because God is rooting for
You!!!
Say this prayer with me:
Father, I am so thankful to have You in my life! Though
there are times I get discouraged, help me to not focus on my current
situations and focus on the leverage I have instead. I may not be able to do
everything, but Lord I now know through humble and consistent prayer You WILL
do the impossible! Everything is all to Your Glory God, I take no credit. I
thank You for my past blessings and I thank You in advance for the ways You
will rewrite my story. I am humbled to serve such a Great and Mighty God! In
Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen!
Post Written By: SIS Leigh
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