November
12, 2012
A friend of mine recently prayed a prayer
out loud for someone else, and he said, “Give him supernatural memory to recall
the good things you’ve done in his life.” Why would this person need
“supernatural” memory to recall good things?
I think I know the answer.
When we are dismayed or disappointed in
life or in people, the present circumstances stare us in the face and we focus
on what’s happening now. Maybe we’ve
lost a job, we’ve just heard horrible news, or we’ve just moved from our
familiar surroundings, and loneliness has come to our back door like a wet
puppy in a storm.
It’s not really easy
to recall good times, when bad times are our reality. So that’s when we need a friend to pray
that prayer above. It’s God and his
spirit that needs to rise up and bring to memory all the good things that have
brought us to the place we now stand…or sit.
And when we start remembering an answered prayer, the fact that we’ve
got food to eat, and the realization that sight and hearing are gifts of mercy, etc.,
it’s funny how the mood lifts.
After the memories of God's goodness surface, if
we sit and meditate on them a while, like chewing a good piece of gum until our
jaws hurt, we suddenly feel a bit of faith rise up that all hope is not
lost. We can then spread out our hands
in faith, in thirst, in hunger for His presence…and it supernaturally
comes. And suddenly we’re no longer
dismayed…Psalm 143:4-6.
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