Just talking...

I am go glad I am going through the whole process of Alpha all over again. I am helping as a facilitator and it has really open my eyes to my relationship with God and how I handle myself. Not only in my relationship with God and others but how I treat myself too.

Last week in Alpha, we talked about how and why we should read the Bible which I have to admit I still struggle with. I don't struggle with believing in the Bible but I have a hard time reading it daily. I have a hard time reading and interpreting at times. This is one of the reasons I love my life group (prayer group) because at times we can discuss readings or even verses and really study them. I read a lot in the Bible and sometimes I need others to really understand what God is really trying to tell me.

Today we finished week 5, we are talking about how to pray. We got to share what we all believed prayer is and what we think is the best way to pray. Why should we pray? Why talk to God when He knows what is going to happen? Does He really answer our prayers? Does praying really matter? Although we have deep questions, God really loved us so much, What is enough amount of praying? What if we forget to pray? What does your praying look like? Today, Ireally learned that it does not matter when, where, what time, etc, God will always hear you and listen to what you have to say.

I was excited today, we get to pray for everyone in our group for the week. God is so wonderful that He does not even wait until we pray and He starts answering requests from our hearts in His time not ours. In our Alpha group, one of gropies request was to have a better week since everything this person had ask for or tried to do just did not seem to work out. As we left tonight, we prayed that we all had a better week and that we could have a positive answer to our prayers for the next week to share. As most of you know, we have a RESET journeys going on in our church and this person had had no success finding a group to join and "reset " with due to her schedule. She had mentioned how disappointed she was but she will catch it the next time. As I got home and joined my friends in Facebook, I discovered a RESET facilitator chatting with me about her group and she totally needed more people in her group. I could connect the person in my Alpha table and this RESET group! OMG! One prayer was already answered and I had not even prayed for the night. God how good are you that you feel our needs before we even ask for them? You are awesome.!! Needless to say, my Alpha buddy is now connecting with a RESET group to check her assumptions. I am excited what else is going to happen after I pray for all these ladies in my group. I can't wait to hear the stories on how they listen for God's words and their prayers were answered.