Prayer and Encouragement....

Prayer. Requests. Family. Friends. Scripture. Encouragement. 

I was at church yesterday and someone was sitting down at a table and called me over. She asked how I was and I said I was doing fine. She looked at me and I continued to look at her. Silence. "I have been sore and discouraged lately." I said after a bit. She smiled and said, " God has been laying you on my heart for a while now and I pray for you but I just don't know what to pray for. And I was wondering how. How can I pray for you Jordan?" 

Also, another lady came up to me and asked how I was doing. I said I was sore and have been tired and a bit down lately. She replied with, " I have been lonely and sad for the last week." Tears sprang to her eyes and she asked if she could pray with me then and there. She did. I gave her a hug afterwards and said that I would pray for her also. 

I can't tell you how much those simple gestures and words meant to me. That encouraged me a lot!

I have been discouraged lately and extremely sore. My pain medication does not seem to help and it seems as though the day will drag at times and I just want to close my eyes and try to remember what it was like only a couple of months ago not to have consistent pain. I dread getting up in the mornings yet I dread going to sleep.I have been praying that God will take this pain away. But lately I have been praying more, not that God will take away the pain, but that he will show me what he wants me to learn and how I can trust him more during this time. And it is not that I don't want to have the pain not go away but if it is in God's will then so be it, but God has a reason he is having me go through this. 

Also during this time it seems as though God has been laying people on my heart that I can pray for. He has showing me stuff in the Bible that has never stuck out at me even though I have read it a hundred times before. I have learned how to be honest of my pain and of my feelings to my family and also to my church family and to my friends. I have already learned a lot going through this time that maybe I would not have learned if this did not happen to me. I continue to pray and I thank everyone for praying for me.