Lover of My Soul (Month #2: part 3)

              I felt a longing in my heart to have a time of unrushed worship that extends past the traditional three songs of a Sunday morning service, which usually include a “welcome” fast paced song and two worship slow songs. (Growing up in the church, I've observed this is usually how it goes. Lol.) So, I began to say, “God, I want to attend a worship night!” Just a little over a week later, my church here in LA announced that they were hosting a worship night that following Sunday.

              After completing my first two weeks of work, the 10 hour work days were slowly wearing me out, so I began to jokingly mention, “Whew, I need a vacation!” That following Monday morning during our first circle meeting at work, I came to find with our virtual days and Labor Day weekend, I didn’t have to go to work in person for 5 days. Immediately I bought a plane ticket to visit home for a few days to have my “vacation” that weekend.

              In my 2+ months of being here, the California skies have teased me many times as they look cloudy, but only pour out a few raindrops. I came to realize that I miss rain. Before the spontaneous “vacation” visiting home, I told God, “Please make it rain, pour, and lightning- all the thunderstorm works- at home because I miss the comfort of rain.” And it rained hard my very last day in Texas.

              Over the span of these instances, it has become apparent to me that God holds on to every word I say. This realization excites me, convicts me, and leaves me in awe. He is the lover of humanity’s soul, that never takes a word we say lightly. I try to fathom this, but it’s tough because I don’t even take my own words seriously at times… but He does!

              With this realization in mind, it makes me think, “If he holds on to every word I say, shouldn’t that drive me to have more faith to come before Him and believe for more because I know that He listens intently with care?” But many times, I don’t. And I think it’s because He does not always come through exactly when I want Him to or how I want Him to. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that He doesn’t hear me. Every word His children say is significant to Him, it’s just a matter of faith and trust in His timing and His heart.

“And if we know that He hears us- whatever we ask- we know that we have what we asked of Him.”

                                                                                                                                             -1 John 5:15

So, let us believe that He values each and every word of ours and let that drive us to come before Him with big faith.

-Brittany Prada 💛

Here’s a song as a reminder of His love for us. His love is a kind that is whole and never broken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI9aqfmVmPc