Topic: Answered Prayer.
Two Sundays ago, I asked for annointing. God gave me a sword of Fire (The Spirit) and moved me the rest of the night to pass the annointing on to other people. As I was masaging Kim, listening to her conversation with Betsy and remembering Julie's report of the last time I masaged her, I prayed for gentleness. This Sat-Sunday after some worship and prayer, during a break time, I went to the bathroom, came back out and was heading back but could not even go to the other end of the hallway. Everyone was talking and greeting eachother in the room while I knelt in the hallway waiting and then recieving a new Sword. I knelt there for a while asking God what He was giving me. I played a guessing game with Him. I knew it was a sword of the Spirit so I went through different words that are of the Spirit. Power, No. Love, Not yet. Kindness, not yet. Goodness, no. I said a lot of other things that I do not remember that were not fruits of the Spirit but connected in some way... Eventually I was sure of what it was and now is. Gentleness and a different kind of patience that I don't get right away but have to learn through obedience. This kind of patience is for praying for people... or rather not praying for them even though I want to, until the time is right. As far as Gentleness goes, I'll have to get a report from Betsy. I also finally got a back massage just before I had to go to work. This also was an answer to prayer. Thank's Kim. Work was very tiring and I did not take my break and hadn't eaten hardly anything all day but at the end of my shift as I was walking out the door, a manager asked me what I was making. I had been wondering if they had changed my $/hr to $7.50 from $6 when I moved to Deli from being a bagger. I was thinking about asking about it but had forgotten by the time I actually was able to leave (I was looking forward to getting home.) I told her this and she said she would check into it tomorrow! Now I'm home and IMing with Kim who has just confirmed that my prayer for her to experience the presence of God this past weekend was answered. But that is her story and you know what Aslan says about people's stories. (Ask me if you don't and I'll tell you, or you can put in a comment if you do know the answer too)