Memorial Box Monday – A Long-awaited Text Message

I am so excited about all the donations that have been made today for Reece’s Rainbow!!  Yippee Jesus!! I was at my staff meeting all afternoon and coming home – it’s the first thing I checked….oh how God’s heart is rejoicing!!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!! 
 It’s not too late to donate.  {Please see previous post!}

Just about two years ago I shared the following Memorial Box Monday story.  Every one of the stories in our box {and in your box} are worth repeating.  In fact that’s what God wants us to do!  Remember.  Remember what He did.   So here is the story, posted first on December 30, 2008…so when I refer to Thanksgiving, it was the Thanksgiving in 2008….
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As I lay awake last night in the middle of the night the Lord gave me the wording to share for one of the items ……you see, there is a little item in our box that represents something in our family for one of our grown kids. It was placed in the box recently.
But because we pastor there are some things about our kids that we just will not share publicly but suffice it to say that this thing we were praying for weighed heavy on our hearts. Our child didn’t know that we were praying for it, but will one day.  It was one of those secret prayers that parents pray over and over. Actually, I would be more accurate to say we were begging the Lord for, pleading over and over throughout the day. We fasted. We agonized. We fasted some more. We asked a couple of close friends to pray for this situation with us.
Then around my 50th birthday things took a turn. The circumstances got even worse. They looked significantly MORE hopeless. Yet we know that we serve a mighty big God and He is bigger and mightier than what any circumstance might appear. I love to call Him our Mountain-Moving, Awe-Inspiring, Gasp-Giving God. And when we found that the circumstances were even worse we continued to pray; tearfilled prayers – oh yes – we prayed!
And around my birthday, when the situation looked the most bleak was a very good time to look into our Memorial Box and remind ourselves of all the other things that God has been faithful in. Remind ourselves of all the things that He has moved mountains for. Remind ourselves just how much He loves to work in the impossible and remind ourselves of just how completely trustworthy He really is. And then to pray some more!
As I lay awake last night the Lord told me to tell this vague story to remind you my bloggy friends that God is Almighty!! He is Faithful! Even when your circumstance looks bleak – keep praying! Even when your situation looks hopeless – keep pleading! Even when your circumstance looks like it is beyond repair – keep trusting! Even when your need looks too big – keep fasting! He is Jehovah!! And He is working the night shift on your behalf, He is moving mountains and He is orchestrating things behind the scenes that you are not even aware of.
Why is He moving? Because He loves you that much! Because He delights in you! Because He desperately longs to show Himself strong on your behalf. Because He is 100% faithful.
Let me just assure you, this situation was such that Dw and I were crying out in desperation! And little did we know that God, even when it looked like there was no hope, was STILL working!!
Then in the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning, laying in our bed at our daughter Abigail’s home I awoke and looked at my cell to see the time and there it was. A text message. Hmmm. Weird. How had I slept through the ring of it coming in? Who was it from? I checked. It was from one of our kids.
And then I read the message. Oh my gracious! There in a text message was our miracle answer. I read it. I read it again. I blinked and read it again!! I gasped!! Did it really say what I thought it said? YES! Yes indeed! Yes, My Mountain-Moving, Awe-Inspiring, Gasp-Giving God had moved!! I could not wait for Dw to stir so I could tell him this monumental news.
The situation had looked so bleak, so hopeless, so desperate and yet, as bleak and as hopeless and desperate as it had looked – Almighty God had been working the night shift on our child’s behalf.
So whatever you are praying for, begging for, pleading for – keep on! Fast! Watch and see “the salvation of our Lord.” Yippee Jesus!
PS And one day, years from now, I will most likely share exactly what it was….but for now….please forgive, but it must remain a mystery. 
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9 thoughts on “Memorial Box Monday – A Long-awaited Text Message

  1. I cannot believe that you would insinuate that pastor's kids are not angels! 😉 How neat. And you got your answer through a text. 😀 Guess God can use technology in great ways!
    ~A Pastor's Kid Myself, Never and Angel

  2. Linny, I feel like God had you post this for me tonight. Right down to when you posted it.(I have been driving all day to get back to school) Thank you for, once again, allowing God to speak through you, even in vagueness.

  3. Thank you Linny for the encouragement even so vague because God sent that morsel to me today when I needed it. I have two BIG prayers out there right now that God has been silent about for well over a year. And I feel like I am failing to understand why I cannot be heard or hear the answers. Thank you for being a vessel when it seems so silent. Many blessings to you, Shirley

  4. You have no idea how MUCH I needed to hear this today. I am in awe of the timing.I can't wait to someday share my story but for now I continue to plead before God. Thank you for the encouragement and for spurring me on.

    🙂

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