P U S H !

P. U .S. H.

Pray Until Something Happens

This is the newest tool to try and get it through to so many, pray until something happens.  But what if you pray and you don't see anything happen, or worse, what you didn't want to happen, happens?  How do you help, what do you do, say, feel?

That's Why I Pray 

There is so much wrong, so many hurting, and we all want to help, so, we pray.  We pray to ease the pain, to stop the tears, to ask for something better, easier, happier.  Big & Rich lay out a few examples here, and the carried TVs with the haunting images really smack you in the face.

But, we don't need someone showing us images of far away in the world to know hurt and heartbreak and frustration and not being able to affect change.  Cancer anyone?  I have 4 people at least in my own life circle right now that I am praying for, due to cancer.  Death in the family?  A good friend just buried is 4 year old granddaughter.  Financial woes?  Stand in line?  Who isn't having some kind of financial woes right now except those running for office?!?  Big Kenny wrote this song for his sister:  Holy Water  

And really, where do we stand?  Between Raising Hell & Amazing Grace  You got that right!  And for some, we are the example of how and where we should raise hell and what that amazing grace can be!  Want to feel humbled?  Ask someone who you know is going through something if you can pray for them and watch the shock, amazement and humbling bafflement go across that face.  And if, if something positive comes out of it?  Well, then it's your turn to feel humbled when they come and tell you and then – wait for it – THANK YOU for praying! 


For so many, this is their life feeling - I'm gonna live forever.  Well, news flash, ain't gonna happen.  And then what?  We can't say prayer in schools, or pretty much anywhere in public and people wonder what's wrong with the world.  Joe Nichols If Nobody believed in you.  Can you imagine how He feels when we take Him out of schools?  Big & Rich speak a little to this in the first song, families are so shattered and spread so thin with activities as no one knows how to sit in quiet solitude with themselves, they don't like themselves much and don't want left with their own thoughts. 

And that is where the tempter, the whisperer comes creeping in.  Get thee behind me, satan!  We need to say this, we need to remember prayer walks, belief in the Word and the symbols of the faith that are so needing in this world today.  9/11?  Did you ever hear this one?  9-11 Song from God.  I heard this the next day, and had to pull over and cry, I couldn't breathe.  He was there.  So many asked how He could have let it happen, but HE WAS THERE!   They just all couldn't, or wouldn't, hear Him, even at the last.  Haven't been taught, or were driven out by organized religion versus true belief.

So, coming back to P U S H – what  if?  Garth Brooks Unanswered Prayers or Laura Story Blessings, or Casting Crowns Praise you in the storm. 

Sometimes, you can't and won't get what you pray for, but sometimes – what you do get is so much better!  So P U S H and F R O G – Fully Rely On God!