For those who may be unaware, there are raging wild fires all over Southern California. One is so close, in fact, that we can see it from our house. The air is heavy with the smoke and ash is covering our windows and cars. We are biding our time indoors today. Which is just as well, as we have a lot of cleaning up to do from our camping trip this past weekend. We were blessed to go camping Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by the beach and away from all the fires and bad air.
This morning I turned on the news to see that the fire is spreading and may not be under control until September 8th!
So, I gathered my children to pray. Luc prayed that the firefighters that went off a cliff yesterday would be blessed by Jesus today and that they would not be in any pain. All the kids asked God to change the weather; send rain!
Then we sang "Let It Rain."
After we prayed we turned back on the news--just in time for the weather report. The weatherman said, "This is so strange, but on the radar are clouds moving in. Humidity is up from yesterday and by tomorrow we actually have some rain. This wasn't expected."
The kids faith was boosted! Now they are praying that the clouds would move in faster and that the rain would come today and not tomorrow.
Will you pray with us? Pray for the Station Fires, the Oak Glen Fire, the Yucaipa Fire, and all the fires burning in California right now. Check this blog for updates.
Notice God's unutterable waste of saints, according to the judgment of the world. God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say - God intends me to be here because I am so useful. Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judges at all of where that is. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, August 10
4 comments:
Just prayed in agreement with you for rain.
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Joy
Agreeing here, too! Thanks for update. :[
Hi Daja! I am a friend of your aunt Gloria...we were talking about my blog and she mentioned a little bit about you and that you had a blog, too! I look forward to reading more! Your family is beautiful!!!
Starr Stoddard
Will pray for you! I thought about your family and the fires last night... should have thought sooner, should have prayed more! Oh, well.
Anyways. I will never forget me praying with the children for Colombia and the drug problem in general (which they didn't know anything about at the time!) and the next morning, in the paper, was news of a major drug kingpin busted. Their faith was built so greatly by that "coincidence"!!! They said, "When we pray, God really DOES work!!" :)
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