passing thoughts

My friend Lill sent me a Max Lucado devotion (Thanks Lill !). It reminded me of something I love about the LORD. I will say something in passing or think something in passing - it might be just a question or something I think I need or think I should do and then the LORD answers me.

He knows me so well and knows I love it. It freaks me out and makes me want to jump up and down with joy. Why? Because it shows me he is a part of my every day life. I'm generally just talking to myself. But he hears me and he's with me every single moment and he just participates in my life.

An example...I met this young Pacific Island girl at the church I was just starting to attend (before my Pastor left and started a new church which we joined). We connected and I left without seeing her again. Anyway months and months went by and one day I was at home thinking about her. Wondering if she was still at that church and how I should have kept in contact with her. I left my unit to do some shopping and as I stepped out my door I heard someone call me. It was her! She had just picked up her daughters who went to school a few streets away from my place.

I cracked up laughing because that is so the LORD. I think my thoughts are my own...but meanwhile it's his Spirit in me prompting me to think about certain things and people.

Another example...I was wondering about a certain issue one day and I watched Joyce Meyer on the internet that day and she was talking about that very same thing...Joyce has a list of archived programmes and I watch the one at the bottom of the list because they roll off and I don't want to miss one:-) That was the one I watched that day. And I recorded her episode that day on tv which isn't in anyway connected to the order on the internet and it was the same issue!!!

I knew that whispered thought to myself was something important to the LORD that I needed an answer to. He's so awesome like that.

Even if I'm not talking to him - he hears me and talks back. That's exactly what it feels like and I absolutely love it!!