Prayer For Saturday December 15, 2018

Prayer is an important and necessary part of our lives. I wish I had all the answers. I wish I could say all the right words. I wish I was smarter however I am who our Father made me to be and I do what our Father has told me to do.

There are times in my life that I am not sure of. Sometimes I feel so sorry that I am not better at what I am doing. Then the Holy Spirit reminds me that I am what our Father made me to be and that He knows who I am and what I am doing…

I think the that last sentence is something that we all need to think about, As Christians our Father knows what He made us to be and what we are doing—even thinking. He made us the way we are for a reason. We are a part of a bigger picture and we find out, sooner or later why.

I remember reading a story about a young lady that that dove into Chesapeake Bay and came home a quadriplegic. Her name is “Joni Eareckson Tada”. I read story after story about her and the things she accomplished and the people she reached, that if she had not been who she was she may have never reached.

Tada lived a very active life all through her growing up years. She enjoyed riding horses, hiking, tennis, and swimming. On July 30, 1967, she dove into the Chesapeake Bay after misjudging the shallowness of the water. She suffered a fracture between the fourth and fifth cervical levels and became a quadriplegic (or tetraplegic), paralyzed from the shoulders down.

God knows and here is some proof of what she has accomplished and my question is;  would she have if she had not gone through what she did…

1979 American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award for Inspiring Victory Over Quadriplegia.
Courage Award from the Courage Rehabilitation Center.
Award of Excellence from the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.
Golden Word Award from the International Bible Society.
1985 First woman to be honored by the National Association of Evangelicals as their “Layperson of the Year” in 1985.
1989 Victory Award from the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
1993 “Churchwoman of the Year” by the Religious Heritage Foundation.
1997 Silver Medal, C.S. Lewis Award from the Christian Educators Association.
2001 Inducted into the Christian Booksellers Association’s Hall of Honor.
2002 William Ward Ayer Award for excellence from the National Religious Broadcasters’ Association.
2003 Gold Medallion Award in Christian Education for her book When God Weeps
2003 EPCA Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
2004 EPCA Gold Medallion Award in Elementary Children for co-authoring Hymns for a Kid’s Heart, Volume 1
2009 Inducted into Indiana Wesleyan University’s Society of World Changers in 2009.
2009 Inducted into the Indiana Wesleyan University Society of World Changers and was presented with an honorary doctorate while speaking at the university on April 1, 2009.
2009 Women in Christian Media honored Tada with the Excellence in Communication award of merit for National Achievement in Christian Media.
2011 Tada was named the 2011 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer.
2015 Robert Neff Award from the Moody Bible Institute.
2012 William Wilberforce Award from the Colson Center on Christian Worldview.
2017 WORLD News Groups named Tada Daniel of the Year in 2017.
2017 The National Religious Broadcasters inducted Tada into the NRB Hall of Fame in 2012.
2017 Charles W. Colson Courage & Conviction Award from Biola University.

I do not know if she would have earned all of these or not however I do not think so. And also she earned…

She also holds the following honorary degrees:

Bachelor of Letters from Western Maryland College
Humanities from Gordon College
Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia International University, the first honorary doctorate bestowed in its 75-year history
Doctor of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary
Doctor of Divinity from Lancaster Bible College
Doctor of Humane Letters from Indiana Wesleyan University
Doctor of Laws from Biola University
Doctor of Humanitarian Services from California Baptist University

Tada is the author of over 48 books on the subjects of disability and Christianity. Several of them have been children’s books, including Tell Me The Promises, which received the Evangelical Christian Publishers’ Association’s (ECPA) Gold Medallion and the Silver Medal in the 1997 C.S. Lewis Awards, and Tell Me The Truth, which received the ECPA Gold Medallion in 1998.

The life story of Tada was used by Czech composer Ivan Kurz in his opera Vecerní shromáždení ketho (Evening Divine service).

I told all of this for one reason we all have problems and if we think our Father does not know it and will not use it maybe just maybe we need to go back and read again. We all can use what we have gone through to help others that are going through the same thing or their own different journey…

Isaiah 40:28-31 (MEV) 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint, nor is He weary? His understanding is inscrutable. 29 He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.

Could or Father be using us where we are in our lives like this. Maybe He is and maybe He is waiting to hear, Isaiah 6:8 (MEV) Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”
In the precious and wonderful name of Jesus I pray this all—AMEN!

Thank you for reading and may God bless and be with you and watch over you. And World, it is time for us to BLESS GOD…

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