PRAYER

When I was a senior in high school, I desperately wanted to be on the homecoming court. When I didn't make it that year, I drove home and threw myself on the bed and cried my eyes out to the Lord. I told Him that the only way this would ever be made right, was by Bill Bolt taking me to the homecoming dance that Friday night. Bill and I had gone together the year before and had broken up. He had gone on to Auburn University and I had not seen him since then. The next morning while going to English class, his sister Jackie came up to me with a note, that was from her brother Bill, asking if I would go to the homecoming dance with him on Friday night!!!
I nearly fell over! I knew then, at the age of sixteen, that if God would answer the prayer of a sixteen year old girl over something like that, He would answer any prayer!
And He has.......
My prayers for understanding were answered, when my parents got divorced after 40 years of marriage, and God carried me through!
When my oldest sister died of Cancer at age 56, He answered my prayer for comfort.
When I almost ended our 15 year marriage, God held me true to my vows, because of prayer.
Prayer ended my husbands battle with alcoholism in 1983.
When my son David Jr. died and was decapitated in 1995, He answered my prayers, by reminding me of His Sovereignty.
In 1996, when I suffered a brain hemorrhage and lay in a coma for two months, He answered the prayers of multitudes in my behalf, and I am still here.
He answered the prayers for my Kelly and gave us a precious, healthy, almost one year old little girl, named Emery Lynn!
The best prayer I had answered though, was when He somehow reached my sweetheart a few days before He died and touched his heart, so that I know he is in Heaven!....
As I go through the first stages of Dementia, knowing that this is a hereditary trait too, I am praying on a daily basis for Him to remind me that He has not given me a spirit of fear, and I know that He will answer that too!
Yes God has been answering prayers for me ever since that silly little plea back when I was sixteen.
It was silly to me, but not to God, because He knows a broken heart when He sees it!
Becky