God of the Impossible

For more of Sarah Hagerty's incredible story, click here: http://everybitterthingissweet.com/and-this-is-who-i-am/ This is one of my favorite blogs and I so identify with her heart, even though our waiting seasons have been different. She so beautifully captures her experience through her poetic and heartfelt writing.

Some of My Favorite WPB Posts

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/02/exchanging-pleasantries.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/02/his-wife.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-pray-for-husband-by-carolyn.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/colleens-love-story.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/set-free-by-truth.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-youre-30-single.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/poem-for-melissa.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/raw-real.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/03/bethanys-prayer.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/04/with-reckless-abandon.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/04/confessions-forgiveness-and-little-cs.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-marriage-was-over.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/05/favorite-quote-of-week.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/05/fresh-perspective.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/06/just-friends-by-colleen-chao.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/06/bondage-traced-back-to-lie.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-this-all-started.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-forgotten.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/10/when-youre-in-love.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/12/colleens-book-list.html


http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/07/delayed-blessings.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/07/contentment-as-act-of-worship.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/07/fragrance-and-prayer.html

http://wivesprayingboldly.blogspot.com/2011/07/dont-lose-heart.html

Thanksgiving Precedes the Miracle!

My copy of Streams in the Desert is heavily highlighted & this devotional for August 4th is completely underlined. It's that good & I've already read it 3 times just this weekend! Read and be blessed, my friends!

"And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, 'Father, I thank thee that Thou hast heard me.' John 11:41

This is a very strange and unusual order. Lazarus is still in the grave, and the thanksgiving precedes the miracle of resurrection. I thought that the thanksgiving would have risen when the great deed has been wrought, and Lazarus was restored to life again. But Jesus gives thanks for what He is about to receive.  The gratitude breaks forth before the bounty has arrived, in the assurance that it is certainly on the way. The song of victory is sung before the battle has been fought. It is the sower who is singing the song of the harvest home. It is thanksgiving before the miracle!

Who thinks of announcing a victory-psalm when the crusaders are just starting our for the field? Where can we hear the grateful song for the answer which has not yet been received? And after all, there is nothing strange or forced, or unreasonable to the Master's order.

Praise is really the most vital preparatory ministry to the working of the miracles.  

Miracles are wrought by spiritual power. Spiritual power is always proportioned to our faith.

Praise Changes Things.

Nothing so pleases God in connection with our prayer and our praise, and nothing so blesses the man who prays as the praise which he offers. I got a great blessing once in China in this connection. I had received bad and sad news from home, and deep shadows had covered my soul. I prayed, but the darkness did not vanish. I summoned myself to endure, but the darkness only deepened. Just then I went to an inland station and saw on the wall of the mission home these words: "Try Thanksgiving." I did, and in a moment every shadow was gone, not to return. Yes, the psalmist was right, "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."