BackStory Bit: Yesterday I prayed. I prayed that The Lord bring people into my life that I could minister to.
This morning the sun shone after a deluge of nine inches of rain in Jensen Beach. My habit is to get out and get moving, early, before the heat holds thickly in the air. Today, I was a little late.
My little dinker dog and I walk the neighborhood daily for the canine meet and greet. This day brought me past the house of another regular dog walker, a young woman I often see. I know she is a believer.
I joked with her, “Aha! Now I know where you live!” We renewed our acquaintance. She showed me a photo of the craft she’d been working on. And I encouraged her to do more with it. “Cast your bread upon the waters,” (Ecclesiastes 11:1) I recommended friendly.
We also talked about our prayer lives. Each of us uses our morning dogwalk for a prayer time. I asked if she prayed in tongues. She did, but had let it lapse a little while.
When we pray in tongues, Holy Spirit prays, but we don’t see what’s happening. But it is important. It’s Biblical. There is power in the prayer tongue. It edifies the prayer. This is especially necessary during deliverance and prophecy. “Make 50 percent of your prayer life in tongues,” I also added. (1Corinthians 14:2, 4, 14, 15)
This young woman took no offence. She had been praying about what to do with her craft work, and said that I had given her confirmation to move forward.
And God had quickly answered my prayer, to bring people along to whom I could minister.
Lord Jesus said, “But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.” (Luke 8:15)
What I have learned from my elders I have passed to the younger generation. I was good soil when they planted the Word of God in me. This young woman is good soil as well.
In this way, the believer grows in his or her walk with Lord Jesus.
We the church need each other.
(C) 2020 Kelly Jadon