Listening Prayer

Before I write about listening prayer, I would like to give an update on what's been going on ministry-wise. For those of you who have been praying for Cat, THANK YOU! She came to church on Sunday and it was awesome! She got to meet people at the church and get loved on by them, and she's been reading through the book of Mark. We are going to get lunch tomorrow and she says that she has a bunch of questions for me! Praise the Lord! Please continue to pray for her to come to know Jesus and for her to see how great He is, how relevant He is for her life, and how much she needs Him.

I got lunch with Phil the other day, and praise the Lord, we had some significant conversation. We got to talk about loneliness and how people at Wake can easily get caught up in that and how much we need community. I got to share with him some about how hard my sophomore year there was and open up about some things. It wasn't necessarily a conversation about Jesus and how he's the Savior of the world, but praise the Lord that it was something deeper than just "so, did you watch the basketball game the other night?" haha. We did talk about that, by the way, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that, but sometimes it seems like that's all we ever talk about and I hunger to have an opportunity to talk with him about Jesus!

Luke seems to be doing just ok. I have gotten lunch with him recently and he seems to be struggling with making time to read the Bible and really living a life that is sold out for the Lord. I think part of the reason may be that the Christian community that is normally there for him during the schoolyear is not there during the summer. Please pray for consistency in the Word for him.

Ok, so I finally made it to listening prayer. I had an extremely edifying time of prayer with a guy who works for the church the other day. What started as me asking for his help with a computer problem turned into a discussion about evangelism and about our hearts for the Wake Forest campus! I knew that we were really connecting on some of these things, especially when at one point in the conversation both of us looked at each other, unable to speak, with tears in our eyes because of the passion the Lord had placed inside us for seeing students at Wake come to know Jesus and experience all that the Lord has for them. After that time of prayer, I felt led to go into the prayer room at Reynolda and just spend some time with the Lord, especially listening to Him and to His will for me. I ended up spending like an hour and a half in there listening to God and writing down what He was saying to me! It was so awesome, and so refreshing. It gave me so much direction, and the Lord placed a whole bunch of Scriptures on my heart. I look forward to digging into them more. All that to say, God still speaks today and I hadn't been taking the time to just listen to Him and go where He tells me to. I encourage you to do the same. Take some time out of your busy day, ask God to speak to you, and just sit in His presence and listen until He does. It's worth it. Jeremiah 29:13 says "you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Go for it. :)