Power of prayer: “Keep My Words”

"My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye" Proverbs 7:1-2

On my journey, I learned that prayer at the beginning should be a discipline because when the trip begins we are generally not “accustomed” to praying but only in times of greatest need. During the great crisis, we determined to pray every day. Yet, we feel sleepy and exhausted, more work arises... and we allow the cares of this life to distance us from our Lord who wants to sow the seed of love in our hearts and Water it until it grows and produces a lot of fruit.

In my journey, I went through that stage where I felt exhausted, many times I did not want to pray but my Beloved reminded me that I needed it if I did not pray I would not see progress in my life. So I tried hard because at that time my eyes were set on what I considered to be the goal of my life “marriage restoration”, it kept me motivated, but when things went wrong and there were tests that motivation was insufficient, however, When I could understand He is the award and my future with HIM is my goal I had greater motivation. At that time my prayers were full of the promises HE had given me, many times begging Him for those promises until I understood HE had already released the word in the spiritual [His promise], and just as HE says, “he spoke and “it was created” [heaven, earth, etc. It does not say will create, it says I believe in present tense], likewise I believe HE releases His word over my life and it is already in action spiritually, so I stopped asking for the same thing every day and went on to thank Him because He had already given His order and I believed the angels were carrying out His orders on my behalf.

After I was restored to HIM and subsequently my marriage, I went through a period of passivity, I stopped being on the offensive against the enemy, worshiping my Beloved for the promises fulfilled on the spiritual plane —and then on the physical plane— to move on to stay on the defensive, just leaning on my Beloved's arm, letting HIM fight, but without my support. At that moment I thought that not begging him was stopping reminding him of his promises. I listened to Him and told Him everything I thought and happened to me, I left my problems in His hands, they no longer mattered to me because He would take care of them. He gave me His promises and that was enough for me, I left Him alone with the matter without talking to him more about it. In this, I observed sometime later that I did not appreciate His promises when the most loving thing as His Bride is to praise Him [in faith] for His way of working on my problems through the promise given.

After a while, I began to feel aimless and my relationship with HIM felt somewhat cold, I had this vision that I was a boat in the middle of the ocean without a fixed direction, like a castaway, just waiting for the waves to take me to my destination, but what ship can reach its destination without a rudder and engine? none. Those are the ones who are shipwrecked, if they are lucky and someone finds them they are rescued but if not they simply perish. It was when my Beloved told me I should remember where I was going, but how? He said His promises are my destiny [the promised land to conquer] my tongue is the engine of the boat and my love for HIM [motivation] is the engine, so I needed to remember His promises daily so that I would take the road again command of the helm and thus cooperate with my Beloved Husband in His plan for my life, so we both “work” in His plan and not HIM alone.

I want to tell you it was difficult for me to regain control of the helm. I once again felt like I did at the beginning with difficulties in disciplining myself but for Him everything is possible and HE Himself was in charge of motivating me and helping me. Today I praise Him because He has taught me this valuable lesson, which is also a way to love Him and value His promises. If He has given them to me, one way to treasure them is to remember them every day and marvel at His power to carry out those promises.

It is something similar to when we treasure family memories in photos and we like to go see them and remember the beautiful times... Likewise, I believe prayer with expectation works, we treasure those photos that we see in our imagination of what He says will be our future when His promises are manifest on the physical plane, so we embrace them, we savor them and we sigh as we remember His power of salvation, we rejoice because HE already has a date for that miracle and He has already won. We rejoice in remembering that HE is faithful and His angels are working on it, we "encourage Him" with our praise [like cheerleaders encourage their sports teams], and our relationship grows and strengthens as much as our faith!

That, my dears, is how He has guided me to maintain my relationship with HIM more lovingly, a balanced relationship in which I receive and give love, in which I listen to Him and do not leave Him alone with work as they say “it's just your problem now” but I rejoice in His promises to me, in what He tells me and I keep worshiping Him with confidence and expectation as He works on them. I encourage you to seek that balance in your relationship with your Husband, to listen to Him and respond to His promises with encouragement, praise, adoration, and confidence because HE is faithful and powerful while He is working on what He promised.