I had wrestled. I had looked up half a dozen verses on waiting. I had worshipped. And then, I came to stand on my watchtower alongside a waiting prophet. I ended that April morning with Habakkuk’s words, as well as the words of my favorite, tried and true commentators.
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These words are part of a collection of writings from the final months of our ten-year-long journey of delayed fertility. In them, I’m pulling back the privacy-curtain and taking you inside the pages of my prayer journals to give insight to those who have not experienced infertility, and hope to those who are neck-deep in...
Four years ago, I sat in bed and cried on my 35th birthday. I was another year older, another year without a family. I had no idea then that I was in the home stretch of our family wait. All I knew was that my arms were still empty. Last week, on my 39th birthday,...
I liked these verses also. However someone pointed out to me that what is surely coming is the disaster to come from the Chaldeans. Just an FYI. Maybe that is the wrong interpretation but if you read the previous verses. Thanks
Hi Janet! Yes, that is absolutely what was coming in this particular story. But I think that the overall point on waiting is the same – whatever the vision is that God is speaking to you (whether it is good or – in this case – not so good) will come to pass if it is truly from Him.
Oh my goodness is this amazing! Thanks for sharing it with us!!
Thank you so much for reading!
I have not experienced infertility or the great heart ache that goes with it. But, I Have had my own great heart aches involving my children, my husband, my work, my finances….All I can say is, Thank you.
Mercy like Morning has been a God-send. I had been floundering under an onslaught of spiritual warfare like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I have been a Christian since I was 5 years old at my Baptist Preacher father’s bedside where I prayed. Now, 43 years later, God is allowing me to go through a time of great testing that has left me wrung out, weary, and questioning.
Then I found your blog, completely by “accident”. And God started piecing some things together, almost word for word like you wrote in your book. Things seemingly unrelated, all pointing me in the same direction as the trail markers you mention.
I have read and re-read your books and your blogs. I have started my own journal of prayer, tears, insights, and countless of God’s promises. I have had the joy of discovering the BLB and all that it has opened up in the Scriptures for me, verses I’ve quoted my whole life now have such deeper, fuller meaning.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your generous sharing of your heartache and your step by step time with the Lord has literally saved my life and renewed my faith in God’s word and promises, and the knowledge that He knows me by name and WILL keep his word to me.
Through many ups and downs, I keep coming back to asking for more wisdom and the faith of miracles. And I believe God, that it will be as he said to me.
God bless you and your precious family.
Misty Seger