More Than We Ask by Lillie Ammann
May 10, 2009
I had several tight deadlines scheduled during the week when I encountered technical problems on a Web site I was creating for a client. Not only could the Web site not be found, but also the client couldn’t send or receive e-mail.
Tech support told me I needed to delete everything I had done and start over from scratch, losing many hours of work and putting me way behind schedule. It was the end of my workday, and I decided to wait until the next day to figure out whether to wipe out all my work or try something else first.
When I went to bed, I prayed that God would give me peaceful rest and that I would wake with a clear mind and the knowledge of what to do to solve the problem.
I woke to a ringing phone. My client said, ”I don’t know what you did while you were sleeping, but I have e-mails pouring in.” I checked the Web site, and it, too, was functioning perfectly.
I asked God for the wisdom to solve the problem. He did more than that—He fixed the problem as I slept. How often I try to solve everything myself when all I have to do is pray. He is our help in all our needs, even technical challenges.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve; birth a spirit of prayer in our hearts, both individually and corporately; raise up prayer warriors among us; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. ~ Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
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