He Would...

So yesterday I woke up feeling frustrated and urgent towards people who needed to be prayed for. This isn't an overtly common theme for me (unfortunately) so I was paying attention. Frustrated in the sense that I didn't feel like my prayers alone would avail much and felt this needed to be a group effort on their behalf and wasn't sure that would have a place in the day. Urgent in the sense that this is part of the Kingdom that is here and a chance for the Kingdom not here yet to meet it...that there be someone to fight for them. It just seemed that these people needed to be bolstered by community. It somehow didn't feel right or enough for me just to wake up and offer heartfelt sentiments on their behalf, but a group coming together directly on behalf of this interesting combination of people I vaguely refer to never formed throughout the day. That might have been a reflection to my lack of gumption in the matter, but it also occurred to me that God had potentially ordered the whole day for these few. From the moment I woke up in having an urgency toward prayer, to it being the central theme at 61, to a dear friend expressing her desire to just be with God, and on to time at a coffee shop with a friend who is beautifully anticipating meeting God in prayer in a totally new way this week, to Amy's pressing into the ideas of asking at The Gathering all the way through to this morning. In looking back, the way God ordered it all seemed like He is fighting for them most definitely, as it appears there was much more community gathered, bolstering, praying, hashing out the ideas of fighting for people than I realized or anticipated. I'm thankful for what God is building into the community around me and as an extension of the vision for what a people who pray would accomplish in the Kingdom. And then there's this....

Daily Light: December 3, morning reading-
I would seek God and to God I would commit my cause.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Case all your care upon Him, for he cares for you.
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. The Hezekiah prayed to the Lord.
"It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear." The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon him as long as I live.
Job 5:8;Gen 18:14; Psalm 37:5; Phil 4:6; 1 Pet 5:7; Isa 37:14-15; Isa 65:24;James 5:16' Psalm 116:1-2.

He would be just that lavish enough to take us on a grand journey even though just another Sunday... and I didn't even have to ask.