Building Relationships In Each Situation

Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(10) Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. (11) Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.’ (1 Chronicles 16:10-11)

The context of these verses is from David, who had just brought the Ark back to Jerusalem. David understood (but often forgot) that the Lord should always be included in everything done daily.  For me, being on the phone for personal items or trading e-mails or texts/chats while at work, I feel it is important to remember the Lord, even in the trivial matters of getting a ‘flip-phone’ to replace the (somewhat useless) home-phone cellular gateway. 

The young woman helping me connect the phone, regardless of the difficulties we are having, is loved by God.  It may be that this phone call is where she will hear from God – or not – by what I say (or not say) to her.  I ask her if she needs prayer, and she answers her and her children have needs that only God can provide, so we pray for those.  (She also asked me to pray for her ‘desires’, I responded by praying for ‘what God desires to be in her life’.  Don’t expect folks, even ‘Christians’, to have all Biblical concepts down.)

I strive, though fall short on many occasions, to not only look for the Lord’s hand in each situation, but to pull the Lord into each situation.  He’s already in each situation, but we don’t always think of Him in every situation.  Most people don’t consider the Lord in any situation, it’s business and ‘business is business’.  But the Lord is there, and we need to seek Him for His take.  Most decisions are not necessarily ones that He will put Himself into (if you’re at the ice cream parlor, I’m certain God doesn’t mind if you pick chocolate over vanilla, for example), but perhaps the question should be asked before needing to make that decision (if you are ‘telling yourself’ that you probably don’t need to go into the ice cream parlor, it may be the Holy Spirit telling you that you don’t need those calories). 

Nevertheless, perhaps the person serving you has a problem or a concern and doesn’t know how to articulate or communicate this to another person.  By you asking the person if they have a prayer need, it may wake them up to their need to communicate with God, and you can be that conduit for them to open up to Him.  Perhaps they will begin to pray on their own after you’ve left.  The next time, or the time after that, with a relationship building, it makes sharing the love of Christ and your Testimony of that love He gave you easier for you to provide and for the person to receive.  In all things, seek Jesus and share Him and His love, through prayer and being that example of Him.