Changing Plans

Over the past several months, God has been teaching me about prayer. Recently, he showed me that he can change his plans in response to our prayers. I never used to think that way. I used to believe that we prayed but, really God made the decision. However, after my last post, I was praying fervently for a friend that was facing an upsetting circumstance in her life. I passionately prayed to God that it was not fair, that the circumstance could be moved by his power. I started to believe in my heart that God could change things. And, in those moments of my prayer, God made it clear to me that he can change his mind. He can change the circumstance.

Most of the time when I pray, I feel as though God is listening but, he has the plan already, so really what is the big deal that I am praying. However, through this experience, I learned that when I pray to God it is often like when I talk to Chris about a situation that I want him to change. I will have an idea of how things should go. Chris has an idea of how things should go. Some of the time these things are opposite of each other. However, because he loves me, he listens and is willing to change his plan based on what I share with him. Why can't this be true of God? Why is it that I think God only has one way of doing things?

So, I encourage you today, if there is something that you want God to fix, heal, restore, etc, share it with him. Don't back down. God wants you to share how you feel, what you want, what you think is right, everything really with him. And, sometimes, he hears your plea, and changes the plan.