All week I've had this mysterious feeling that has caused me to not worry about school work, watch a few episodes of my favorite television show, and not study for the two midterms that I have today. Ehhhh I think it's called burn-out, but I would also describe it as peace. You see, despite this "I-don't-care-about-school-and-I'd-rather-do-something-else" feeling, I have finished my work and I have been very productive and I even feel pretty confident about the two midterms... Someone must have been praying for me this week.
I will be the first to admit that I totally and completely underestimate the power of prayer. However, time after time, sticky situation after sticky situation, God comes through for me. This week has been a big boost of faith. I have a huge prayer that I need answered for this Sunday coming up and I'm expecting a miracle. I can do this because of two reasons:
1. God has answered all of my little prayers this week. So, if he cares about the little things, don't ya think he cares about the big things? Doesn't the Bible say his eye is on the sparrow, and how much more does he care about us than the sparrow? A lot. So yeah! Here are a few (little) prayers he answered for me this week:
~For my history class, I have to turn all of my papers in to this website called "Turnitin" to prove to my professor that I did not plagiarize. Well, I turned in my hard copy last week, but did not turn it in online. When I went to turn it in online, my flash drive had crashed. Poop. So I e-mailed my teacher and explained the situation. Did she e-mail me back? No. So I worried for three days (this was a big grade) and she never e-mailed me back. So I went to her office, kind of scared, because she is scary. Oh, and I prayed. Duh. And you know what? She let me off the hook, told me I didn't have to turn it in online, because I made an A on the paper and she just believed me that I didn't plagiarize (I didn't). So thank you Jesus!
~Also, and I won't go into a lot of detail on this one, but I was worried about a relationship in my life (not Joseph, don't worry hehe) and God opened a door for me to make efforts to fix it. Yay! Thank you Jesus!
~On Wednesday, I was having a horrible day. I was sick, I had to work, I had class, I was going, going, going, from 8:00 that morning til 9:30 that night. But church Wednesday night was SO good. Perfect. And then I had a great opportunity for work to help get my utilization up. Praise God!
~Joseph's mom got an extra ticket for the concert they were going to and asked me if I wanted to go. I didn't really pray for that, but praise the Lord anyways :)
2. I also have faith that God is going to answer my big prayer because I haven't decided in my mind what I think he should do to answer it. Often times we pray for God to work a certain way, and then when things don't go exactly as we think they should, it upsets us. But I know that God's plans aren't always the same as mine. So I'm just counting on him to do something and I know he will.
Great post :)
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