When You Really Need God To Show Up

You may not have witnessed a lightning strike from your prayers, but if you think back, most of us have those experiences where we know God is real. We know God answered our prayer. We know God was there.

One of the times I think of recently is with my Veteran I told you about on Easter. Fred trusted his life to Jesus in our Bible study group. And I see evidence of the Holy Spirit working on him all the time. This week he shared how his old nature would snap at people and get so angry if they let him down, particularly VA workers. He would blow up at them. And yet, something in his spirit now is telling him this is wrong. So he finds himself in a battle between his old self and his new self. I showed him in scripture where the Apostle Paul talks about that, how we all face it. And I encouraged him to keep trusting the Holy Spirit as he shows Fred a new way to react to disappointment and letdown.

I see God at work in Fred. It is awe-inspiring when we see God at work. We need to hang onto those moments during times of drought, when God seems silent. God loves us. God knows every need of our hearts. God wants us to love him and to freely choose him, to say, “Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God.” Let us pray:

Elijah prayed, “Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” God, answer us. Show us that you are God. We don’t want to put you to the test in an arrogant sort of way. Just remind us of the many evidences you give us that you are at work all around us. And help us to choose you, to choose life over death, as Moses put it, to choose not to be lukewarm anymore in our response to you, but to choose you fully, as we watch what you want to do in and through our lives, in Jesus’ name, amen.