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I think God spoke to me today. Last night, it poured rain in buckets. It rained so hard that the sidewalks coming into the building I live in, were flooded. It rained for hours and when I went to bed, one of my prayers was a little request for no rain in the morning (today). The reason for this prayer is I drive a scooter. I am currently between cars and saturdays I serve at celebrate recovery up the road about 15 miles. When I got up this morning, it was extremely overcast and the sky was actually quite black near the beach. I thought, “I just can’t ride my scooter in the rain again.” So I started to search the bus schedules to see which one to take and when to take it so I would be on time. I figured if I was going to take the bus I had better hurry. In the middle of searching the bus schedule, I glanced out the window and noticed the sky looked even worse than before, but suddenly I remembered the prayer I prayed last night and the still small voice said, “why don’t you trust Me and have a little faith that it won’t rain?” I thought, “huh… okay Lord.” So I stopped the search for schedules for today, although I did look for schedules for next time. When the time went past the point of no return, I thought, “I’m really leaving this to You Lord.” I rode my scooter the whole 15 miles in the direction of the black sky and it did not rain one drop! Praise God! And as I write this I am in awe of my God, Who would answer such a trivial prayer and then even let me hear His voice in the matter on top of it.

My Dear Sweet Father in heaven,

I cannot even begin to fathom why You would look down on this world and even know that I exist, let alone love me. I look in the mirror and see the wretch that I am and think how is this possible? When I remember all the things I did to avoid You and even telling You to go away and leave me alone, I can’t help but cry out to You for mercy and forgiveness. And You were there and heard my cry and gave me mercy and forgiveness! Thank You! Somehow thank You doesn’t seem to be adequate. I love You! And somehow my love for You doesn’t seem to be enough either. You say in Your word there is nothing I can do to merit Your love and mercy except to believe in the One You sent and I just thank You and praise You and worship You and honor You and devote my whole life to You. Help me to be in complete surrender to Your will for my life, whatever that entails. I will rejoice in Your name always, no matter what good or bad comes my way because You are my Father and I love You more than I thought I could ever love anyone in all my life and because You have given me the most wonderful gift anyone could ever dream of getting, Your beautiful, precious Son, Jesus, Messiah, Savior! Thank You!!! A million times I cry thank You!!!