Some things that really stood out to me from Mike Glenn at Kairos were these:

Stay with the prayer until you get to the praise. Keep praying, even if your prayer has no words and is only the cry of your heart. Keep seeking and wrestling with God until the blessing comes. Keep crying out until the tears and mourning turn to dancing and joy.

As for blessing, if God showed you His box of blessings and told you that you had already used up all the blessings He had for you, would you be able to say, “I’m good?” If God never gave you anything else– no blessing, no visible reminder of His presense, no comfort nor peace, and all you had was God and God only, would that be enough? Would you be able to say with Job, “The Lord has given and taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord?”

Jesus knows what it’s like to feel alone. His prayer from Psalm 22 expresses the feeling of abandonment when He cries out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?” Don’t for a second think that Jesus doesn’t know or understand what you’re going through in any stage of your life. He does. And He knows you better than you know yourself, for He made you.

If the worst case scenario happens, if your plan A fails, God will still be God. His plan B may not be what you would have chosen, but you get all of God in the bargain. You will never look back at where He led you and see how He provided for you during that season and wish you could have had your plan A. Never.

For the record, this is my commentary on tonight’s Kairos message from Mike Glenn. It’s probably random, but that’s the way my mind is going tonight. My prayer for you is that you know always in every season of life, in every sunny sky, and every storm that God is with you, God is for you, and God is in you. Always.

If that’s all you ever take away from all my blogs, that’s perfectly okay with me. I’d be good with that.