Has God's Arm Lost It's Power? Prayer For Your Children

Have you ever found yourself whining to God about His manna? His daily provision he graciously provides us without having to think or ask for it. It just arrives every morning: our breath in our body, our comfy beds, roof over our heads, coffee waiting to be brewed...

This manna is small and pale. We have to go gather it, grind it, boil it, and bake it. Ugh….so much effort, LORD. In our daily grind of life, this heavenly provision can feel small, boring, insignificant. We become desensitized to the miracle delivery because it just shows up every morning.

We find ourselves wanting more!

Sometimes for earthly food and, even at times, for spiritual food.

I want God to speak to me with thunder and lighting from Mount Sinai. I get tired of waiting for the still small voice I hear confirmed in His Word. 

I start to grumble and complain.

I start to cry out, "LORD, I want MEAT!"

In my heart of hearts, what I'm really crying out for is the world's food. I want a taste of the world because I'm not content or satisfied with God's food.

While reading my morning Bible reading, I read in Numbers 11 how the Israelites felt exactly how I felt yesterday: grumpy, whiny, discouraged, disappointed and ungrateful. 

They were tired of the manna and they started cry out for meat.

God responded, "I've heard your grumbling. You want the world's food? I will give you so much meat you will gag!"

Moses, who was leading this group of whiners, tells God, "I can't handle this burden anymore. I didn't ask for it or want it. How can you possibly supply enough meat for all of these people?"

God responds to Moses, "Has My arm lost it's power? Now you will see whether My Word comes true."

You see, yesterday I had gone to the mountaintop expecting thunder and lightening. I wanted God to speak to me through a powerful cloud. I needed direction for my daughter's future since she is transitioning into adulthood, college, and career. There are so many choices to make in these last few months that I wanted God to speak in grand Exodus style.

Yet, what I got was scripture verses spoken calmly and quietly by two sweet sisters in the LORD.  I walked away feeling very disappointed. Thinking to myself, "Is that all, God?"
Until I decided to put those scriptures together and pray them:

Dear God,
I pray that you would draw my daughter with unfailing kindness and help her to feel your everlasting love.
I pray you would give her a Cyrus anointing. That you would empower her right hand. That you would open up doors for her that no man can shut. That you would go before her and level the mountains and make crooked places straight. I pray you would smash down gates that the enemy puts before her. Give her treasures hidden in the darkness, secret riches.
I pray you do this, LORD, so that she will know that you are the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls her by name.
LORD, I pray that every plant, whether it be relationships, friendships, school and career choices, decisions, that the Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted by the root. Surround her with godly friendships, relationships, and opportunities where she will grow in her faith, grow deep roots in the Word, and bear good fruit.
I pray this in Jesus' powerful name.
Amen.

So I will pray this prayer, this Manna given to me yesterday morning, lovingly carried down on dew from my Heavenly Father, that I almost left outside discarded to rot in the afternoon sun.
Because I can almost hear God's voice say, "Yolanda, has My arm lost its power? Pray My Word and see whether it comes true."

The fervent prayers of the righteous mom avails much! Do you have a child, teen, or adult child who needs a Cyrus anointing, then start to pray Manna. Jesus is the Bread of Life. He will nourish your child with the only spiritual food that will satisfy.

Love,
Yolanda

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