Moving Mountains - Answered Prayers

While on the discipleship trip, we used John Eldredge's new book, "Moving Mountains" to learn about prayer during our devotional times.  One of the days we talked about daily prayer and challenged the students to either use Eldredge's daily prayer, or to adopt one of their own to pray daily.

I personally decided to use Eldredge's daily prayer, which you can read for yourself here. (I'd also suggest that you start this practice if you don't already and that you read his book as it has changed the way I think about prayer).

The Sunday after we returned, I was gong through the prayer and the line, "In all that I now pray, I stand in total agreement with your Spirit and with all those praying for me by the Spirit of God alone" stood out to me. I'm not really sure why, but that phrase "with all those praying for me" really struck something in me that morning. 

I paused, thinking over what I know people have prayed for/over me. I think the most common thing I hear that people are praying for me is that I stay safe on the roads while I'm on my motorbike. In thinking this I said to myself/God (almost flippantly), "yeah, I agree with those prayers. I'd like protection while riding around town. Protect me today God, as I go out on my motorcycle." I went through the rest of the prayer, got ready for the day, and headed off to church (on my motorcycle) without really thinking anything of it.

After church I headed up towards Meechok Plaza on the Mae Jo road to meet some friends for lunch. At one of the U-turns in the middle of that road, I saw (from a distance) a car starting to pull out (and just as a reminder, we drive on the opposite side of the road here). As I came closer, the car started pulling out further. As the Mae Jo road is plenty wide I thought they might swing into the far left lane that I was in, but would get into middle lane before I reached them. Still, I started to slow down a bit. But this car didn't pull into the middle lane. In fact, it started to cut me off in the far left lane. I slammed on the breaks and saw there was a petrol station on my left. I figured that's where this car was headed and that they hadn't seen me, but I wasn't fast enough to honk my horn. Instead I sped up to pull into the petrol station and pass around the car. I made it safely, but couldn't believe how close I came to being run off the road.

Once I reached the restaurant and settled my racing heart I was overwhelmed by this sense of God's hand and protection in this situation. I was then overwhelmed that I had prayed for protection on my motorbike today because I prayed in agreement with what I know others pray for for me.