It starts the minute I wake up. My mind starts telling me the things that I need. "I need coffee. I need peace and quiet. I need more help or more attention or more affection or I need to be left alone. I need more money. I need a vacation."
This morning I had an unusual experience. I was praying while I was tidying the house in preparation for a time of tea, muffins and prayer with some leaders' wives from our church. Suddenly I heard, not with my ears but in my inner being, the words, "Wherever there's a lack, I will fill the gap." I knew God was speaking to me. I immediately thought of myself, and many others in my life, who look to something or someone other than Christ to fill up areas in my/their life where there is a lack. There can be a multitude of ways that we feel and experience lack, and a multitude of ways we try to fill up our own emptiness. (Join me for the rest of this post on Sunday, May 5th, at Woman to Woman Ministries, where each Sunday I share a bit of Sunday Soul Food!)
I love it when the Holy Spirit speaks truth to our souls. And I love how we can pray any time--even whilst scrubbing toilets :).
ReplyDeleteThat is so true!
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