Purpose is Now

As I’ve been looking for the BIG THING, I feel like God’s showing me today how many miracles are the midst of my path in the small things – the little things lead to the big things. Three nights ago, I heard the heart of a woman in distress. She hadn’t seen her kids for Christmas in 4 years and dreading the Holidays. “I don’t think I can make it through another disappointment,” she said with tears in her voice.

I prayed with her a specific prayer for God to knit together their hearts and to make a way for this woman to have a healing and joyous season reunited with her daughters. The very next morning she texted me and said that her girls both had agreed to come to her ranch for Christmas in December.

He answered so fast it blew my mind! Then I heard the doubt creep in as we talked in celebration of this message. She hated to get her hopes up and then something changes between now and then. I heard the voice of my own heart connecting to hers as I know how she feels. I haven’t spent a Christmas with my children in many years either – since the divorce and I moved out of Texas.

It’s the oil we carry when we’ve been through pain that another has upon their hearts. It connects us and reminds us we’re all human. And in that vulnerability we find the beautiful moments when our hearts can speak truth – as little children praying out to a Sovereign God to help and heal us in the spaces that matter the most. It’s the hurt we keep hidden from a world that doesn’t accept weakness – but often sees it as an invitation to devour the uncovered and take advantage of those who are in suffering. These are the “women in the sand” as told by the disciples who witnessed Jesus covering the uncovered. He bent down and touched the ground as the author who needs no pen or pencil for he writes his story in our hearts. She’s one of us and she needs a breakthrough.

God is our protector and our waymaker and he sends the angels unaware into our paths – the prayer warriors too. I’m so happy to have had this encounter with this woman and it’s lighting a lamp inside of me once again to never stray away from the opportunity to pray with someone.

Where two or more are gathered in his name – he is in the midst of us.

Today I pray for the courage, strength and the wisdom to carry out the prayer candles to the very hearts who need to receive them now. I pray for God to go before me and prepare them to reach out and be vulnerable and to trust me with their secrets as I only wish to bring their needs before the throne of God and witness the power of prayer in miracles here on earth. I want to share his Glory and watch him light up the world in small ways that can become big ways. Every light that sets flame to another wick is part of the process that can change everything. I set out to finish this website today, make as many candles as possible with the check I received and to get out there and start spreading light. I’m so excited to report back here HIS miracles. I know they’re coming. I say yes to having a front row to what he’s about to do.