HiPhil,
I love that!
I do the same thing.
I ask Holy Spirit to show me how to do things, or to help me find
something.
He always does help me!
I've never had Holy Spirit not show me something when I have
asked.
I'm Praying to God that you will get your feeling back in your fingers
and hands.
I'm praying for you and Sandy, Daily!
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me"
Philippians 4:13.
At 04:31 PM 12/30/2014, you wrote:
I've written more
than once on echurch about how I pray for things I've dropped, or lost,
or misplaced and prayed in order to find. I would say my record for
answers to such small requests is at least, I'm not exaggerating, 999 out
of a thousand. I am not joking. I cannot actually recall the
last time the Lord did not answer a prayer I have made to him for help to
find something I've dropped or lost. I do even more than
that. A few weeks ago, I received from my wife, the upgrade from
the Apple I5 iPhone to the I6. The outerbox was taking forever to
figure out how it came apart. So after several minutes of getting
no where, I asked the Holy Spirit to show me how to get the cover apart
without breaking anything. I instantly realized how it came apart
and quicker than you can say Jack Sprat the wonder Rat, I had my I6
enclosed inside the hard shell cover of the outerbox. That's not
what I'm writing about however. I have trouble lining up the
charging power plug to the bottom port of the iPhone. I've always
had problems lining up the plug to slide into the port with any phone
I've owned. I finally began asking the Holy Spirit to show me, that
is, to help me, in lining the plug up with the port and, God as my
witness, every time I ask, I immediately find the jack and slide the plug
into the port. Every time? Yes, every time I have ask, it has
worked. One day, I was trying to plug it in to charge my
phone. As I fumbled around, trying to line the plug up to the port,
I said, I'm not going to keep pestering the Lord about this because I can
get it; I just need to focus more. I heard a voice inside my head,
say, "What's the matter? Are you afraid I won't answer your
prayer request and your track record will be broken and you will have to
admit, it doesn't work every time?" I almost blushed. I
forgot the Lord could hear my thoughts. After apologizing for
doubting him, I ask Him once again to help me and bing! The plug
immediately, instantly, hit the port and slid right in. But that is
not what I am writing about. Last night, before bed, I was taking
my medication prescription. Let me tell you how I take my vitamins
and medications. Nearly 6 years ago, when I had to have surgery on
my spine at the bottom of my neck, I had lost so much feeling in my
fingers, I could not read Braille or even dial a large push button Radio
Shack desk phone I've had for 20 years. My fingers felt literally
frozen. The first thing I became aware of in the recovery room of
the hospital when the surgery was over, was my hands felt warm. It
still took a few weeks before my hands gain strength enough to do a whole
lot and most of my meals were made of things I could pick up with my
fingers because I couldn't hold a knife or spoon or fork well enough to
feed myself. I soon discovered, even before the surgery, that I
could not use a finger and slide a pill out of its bottle into my palm
because I could not feel them. So, back in those days, as I still
do today, I put the bottle up to my mouth, tilt the bottle, and let one
or two pills, whatever the dosage requirement is for that particular
medication, drop into my mouth. I often use my tongue to fish a
single pill closer until it falls into my mouth. I drop a lot fewer
pills using this method. However, as I began to say, last night, as
I was going off to bed, I was taking some medication using the method
just described. The problem is, sometimes my tongue touches two
pills and the two pills come out together, that is, they are stuck
together just from my tongue touching them simultaneously. I
separate the two pills by letting the first pill into my mouth, closing
my lips, and breaking the contact between to two pills; the second
unwanted pill falling back into the bottle. Sometimes I do it too
quickly, or I'm thinking about doing something else so my mind isn't
focused on what I am doing, or sometimes, when going to bed, I'm just
sleepy and tired and not paying attention to what I am doing. Such
was the case last night. The second pill missed the bottle and I
felt it drop away but I couldn't hear it hit the counter, or the floor,
because I had my hearing aids out. I wasn't even certain the pill
missed the bottle because, as I said, I heard nothing. Yet, it felt
like the second unwanted pill missed the bottle because I pulled it back
too quickly and I thought I felt something hit my shirt. I thought
first of just letting it go but you never know how medications like that
might effect your pets and our little dogs nose around the kitchen all
the time hunting for a Crum here or there. So, I put the bottle
back in the cupboard, and getting down on my hands and knees, I prayed in
my thoughts and said, "Holy Spirit, you know if that pill is on the
floor or not, so if it is, show me where it is. I felt in a very
wide area because hard pills like that can hit the floor and bounce and
roll for several feet in any direction. I have, in fact, found a
dropped pill like that under the front end of the nearby
refrigerator. After about 30 seconds, I struggled to my feet,
easier said than done these days and at this time of my life, and as I
stood, I said in my thoughts, "It isn't on the floor or the Lord
would have found it for me." So, since I had been sort of
leaning up against the kitchen counter while taking the pill, I figured I
should check; still convinced the pill had fallen back into the bottle
but I checked anyway. This time, I said, "Lord, if that pill
fell on the counter instead of the floor, show me where it is.
There is a glass tray right there which holds Sandy's collection of
coffee mugs she uses. The sides of the tray curl upward to keep the
cups inside that area. That means that a dropped pill can slip
under that lip and remained hidden even to someone with sight trying to
find it. So I began feeling under that lip. I found it within
5 seconds. It was so tiny, I wasn't for sure if it was the right
pill so I got one out of the prescription bottle, put them together, and
held them between my thumb and first finger; one on top of the
other. I used my other index finger to trace how the two pills felt
and they were, without a doubt, identical. Once again, God comes
through. If it is important to you, it's important to him, so pray
and let God do His work because He wants to be that close to you.
Phil.
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