Month: January 2021

Posted in Journal

When the Father Says, “No!”

Posted on by Melissa Lynne

It seems like lately, I have received more than once the gift of the Father’s “No.” Did I receive them willingly? I confess even though I ask for “Thy will be done in my life (and my family’s lives) as it is in heaven,” hearing and accepting “NO” as His will isn’t always easy. I have been guilty of fighting against God’s “No.” I have kicked and cried like a child hoping if my cries were loud enough, it would all go away. Or enough tears would turn the “no” to “yes.” But in the end, there truly is only one choice for a child in a tantrum, and for me – hush, surrender, and accept the answer – no matter the answer.

Help me, Lord, to trust You and Your “no” as much as I do Your “yes.” Help me to receive them as gladly and be just as content knowing they are Your gifts and good will come of each and every “No.” Help me, Father. I ask in Jesus’ Name! Amen!!!

The following picture is from Elisabeth Elliot’s book – A Lamp for My Feet.

Posted in Hiding His Word

Always Pray and Do Not Faint

Posted on by Melissa Lynne

From This Day We Fight by Francis Frangipane

When Jesus said we ought to pray at all times and not lose heart (see Luke 18:1-8), He was saying, in other words, that if we are not praying, we will lose heart. Most of the things I pray for, I have to pray through to get the answer. God desires to see something deeper come out of my prayer time than just my getting an answer to prayer. He wants me to become like Jesus. So He arranges character-forming battles that will not only change the world around me ultimately, but change me first. This is what all true prayer warriors have discovered.

Luke 8:1-8 – And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Thou I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?