These thoughts have challenged and broken my heart today.\u00c2\u00a0 God is good.\u00c2\u00a0 He answers our prayers for brokeness.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Too many people underestimate the power of listening and prayer.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to me builds trust. When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what is most needed and most helpful. Please listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand pray. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel the way I feel, you have trespassed holy ground. You have not walked in my shoes. Please listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand pray. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems, you have interfered in a holy process, strange as that may seem. Please listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand pray. All I ask is that you listen. Not talk or do\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust listen. When you do something for me that God and I need to do, you contribute to my fear and feelings of inadequacy. Please listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand pray. When you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and begin to be healed by the Spirit of God. Please listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand pray. Remember, these are holy, epiphanic moments of the soul. So please listen and just hear me. If you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll listen to you.\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAnonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n Lord, thank you for the trials that bring me to brokenness and press me in to You. Please give me eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to understand your ways that I might turn and be healed. Unless you do, I cannot repent in brokenness. Thank you for the gift of holy moments and healing tears that brings me to your feet in brokenness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat makes room for your grace to forgive, comfort, heal, deliver and transform me\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat makes room for more of you in my life. Continue to pour out your Holy Spirit upon me that I might be free to worship and serve you in greater purity of spirit and truth. In your Name, Jesus. Amen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These thoughts have challenged and broken my heart today.\u00c2\u00a0 God is good.\u00c2\u00a0 He answers our prayers for brokeness.\u00c2\u00a0 “Too many people underestimate the power of listening and prayer.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to me builds trust. When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what is most needed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}