prayer NON-warrior?

i am here trying to put some details together for the "god is love retreat" and i am marveling at the answered prayers he has given us so far.... why am i marveled everytime? i know how great our god is and i know how he has the ability to do whatever his heart desires, yet i am still marveled everytime. do you ever feel that way? then i just stop and see how our team has committed to prayer so clearly in this endeavor and i start to see with my own eyes the power of prayer and how his guidance in this endeavor is so clear. it's funny, jump back a few years ago..... i had known and heard of many "prayer warriors" and thought "wow...THEY are so spiritual! how does one become a PRAYER WARRIOR?" warrior is so fierce, so determined, so.... GRAND! and that clearly did not describe what i considered myself to be. yet, over the past few years, i had seen prayer work, even in my "prayer NON-warrior" like way. i simply started talking to god more....that was all. and i began to realize that with simple conversations, i began to see changes.....answers, really. like maybe what i use think were "coincidences", but since i had prayed, i knew (and felt) it was more. it was pretty cool at first. so, like anything else in life that's "pretty cool", what do you do?? yep, keep doing it! (like trying a caramel frappicino at starbucks) and that's what i did. now, here i sit, marveled at what god has done and is doing. i am having the pure joy of seeing god revealed everyday...in little things. but it's the little things where he knows i will know it's him. i never imagined i would not only understand prayer in a new way, but in turn, allow it to draw me close to him and be guided by his every move and live in a freedom that i never knew. for me, i may never consider myself a prayer warrior, or maybe i am....who knows (it does sure sound "pretty cool"). but what i do know is that prayer is the link between you and god. it will be what allows you to know him, surrender to him and be guided by him. it just starts with a simple conversation with him. :)

Jeni Barbush

loveSTRONG ministries

Executive Director

www.lovestrongministries.com