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In the Quiet: Developing Trust and Finding Strength 9
DAY 4
Pray Through It
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this
happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
JOHN 9:3
I am so proud of you – you have made it this far without quitting. Believe
me, after the first two days of trying to sit in quiet with the Lord, I was
ready to quit and never get back into it again. I thought I was doing something
wrong, or that God simply didn’t want to talk with me. Thankfully,
once my frustration subsided, I was able to keep going and experience the
hope that He gives as we sit in His presence.
The word “through” always seems to have a negative connotation. If
we say that we are going through an area, or a difficulty, or a misunderstanding,
it means that we are going right into the middle of it. We can’t
go around it, we can’t avoid it, we can’t take a short cut past it – we have
to address it directly. When it comes to how we are living and our prayer
lives, we struggle with praying through something. If we are all honest,
when we go through something difficult, we want to pray for a way out of
it, but what if that is not what God has in store? What if going through a
situation, and praying through the situation, is what God has in store for
you as a launching pad into a closer walk with Him.
Think about John 9. Jesus came upon a man who was blind. Everyone
around him said that the man was blind because of some sin that had been
committed, so Jesus was asked if it was the sin of his mother or father that
caused the man to be blind. Jesus said neither. The reason that the man
was blind was because God would be glorified through the healing that