24 | January | 2008 | The Weaver Family Blog

When God is doing so many deep things in our hearts, I find the biggest challenge is to be faithful in daily things of life, maybe because the enemy knows that this is where true revival must first be manifested.Â WhenÂ God is working to teach us how to have a broken heart so that His love can flow through us into the lives of others,Â the biggest challenge is to be patient and loving with those closest to us.Â This morning it is my lively, creative children.Â :)Â Our girls seem to have an uncanny drive towards creativity.Â Perhaps most mothers would curtail those tendencies more and find themselves free from little pieces of paper, markers, glue, pencils, scissors, stickers, and a variety of little crude gifts pressed into their hands all day long.Â I prefer the mess, especially when I see the joy it gives my little ones to make something for someone.Â I have been amazed what all sorts of creativity can come out of even a two-year-old.Â All the clean-up times are worth it for the satisfaction I see on my 7-yr.old’s face when she can hand her favorite aunt a carefully crocheted scarf that she made.Â No, I wouldn’t trade them in the least.Â Certainly, these little ones do lead us in our walk with God, too.Â One day when I was feeling especially vulnerable, I was kind of lost in thought, but I heard Jaime calling my name.Â I answered her a little absentmindedly, but my heart melted when she said, “You are my best Mama!Â That’s all I wanted.”Â Â Â Her prayers are so sweet, too, and you never know quite what to expect.Â :)Â She often prays, “Dear Jesus, please … do all Your work in us!”Â It’s amazing what little ones pick up.Â This morning she was telling me how she fixed up a little place “where I can go in and pray.”Â

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“It is when we realize our oneness with Christ in death and in resurrection, that prayer becomes the marvelous force that we find it was in the life of the Saviour; the invincible dynamic that reveals itself to be in the book of Acts; and the ineffable experience of the great saints of the ages.Â It is then that our spirits, liberated by the power of the Cross from the fleshly and the soulish entanglements, ‘mount up on wings as eagles’.Â It is then that communion with the infinitely adorable One Who inhabiteth Eternity, comes spontaneously and naturally to its fullest expression.Â It is then that the injunction: ‘Pray without ceasing’, ceases to be an unintelligible command; for the spirit released from the thralldom of the ‘flesh-life’, and freed from all Satanic oppression by an appropriation of the full benefits of the Calvary victory, rises to take its place with Christ in the Heavenlies where prayer is the coninuous in-breathing of the life of God, which it cannot be until it is freed from all selfish ingredients, becomes at times a groaning which is unutterable, and which does not fail to move mountains, and achieve the impossible.Â It is then that prayer becomes a wordking out of the will of God and therefore, must prevail be the cifficulties what they may be, however staggering the problem, however great the need.Â It is then that the great desparity between what the Master said that prayer would accomplish, and the miserable caricature that it is in the actual practices of millions, is removed, and prayer blossoms out in all the glory of its true nature.”Â Â F.J. Huegel

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