Sometimes I do things and I feel very silly. I'm guessing it's part of God's sense of humor. But lately I've been thinking that as part of my goal to take more time to focus on my own spiritual development, devotion time, and prayer, that I should find a prayer partner. It's one of the areas of my life that I have seen and felt powerful things from. But, my consistency in prayer is not always what I want it to be. And, I think that having a partner to encourage me and hold me accountable- as well as knowing someone else is counting on me to do the same. So, shortly after that idea came to me, so did the person. Actually, I'm not sure when. It may have been at the same time. But, anyway, I felt strongly that I needed to ask this person to be my prayer partner. What makes me think this was God's idea? Well, I hardly know this person. She goes to a different service than I regularly attend, she isn't involved with the youth, and we have typically not crossed each other's paths until recently when we were in the same Bible study and now in another class together. So, even though I felt strongly led, I was not anxious to jump into it.
Then tonight at class, we talked about the importance of a prayer life and also mentioned prayer partners being a good thing. And then a few were chatting after class- including this person. I was thinking to myself that maybe that was my nudge to talk to her so I was hanging around waiting for their conversation to end. I was also thinking to myself that I'd probably sound crazy and maybe that's just not something she would want to do. Maybe she's not a big prayer person? And just then she happened to mention how she and her husband pray together every night! Ok, God, I get it!
So, I asked her if she would be willing to be my prayer partner and she seemed very willing to do it. I was hoping she would know exactly what to do next but it was something she'd obviously never been asked. So, I guess we'll figure it out together. I'm wondering where this step will lead!
Colossians 4:2 New Living Translation (NLT)
An Encouragement for Prayer
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