After our daughter was born, and whilst I was serving in the RAF, my wife and I expected to have another baby within a couple of years, but it didn’t happen.
Sadly, there were miscarriages and a Fallopian pregnancy. We prayed for the blessing of another child but felt the chances were getting more and more remote. Then the good news came that my wife was pregnant – we prayed that no mishaps or accidents would happen and that she should be delivered of a healthy baby.
That became a reality and of course we were delighted, thrilled and so grateful. Our new baby was a boy, and we could only call him Samuel, a gift from the LORD.
After some years our young son was diagnosed with an eye condition which needed an operation in hospital. We prayed for his safety and for success in the operation. Our prayers were answered handsomely thanks to the skill of hospital staff and their dedication to the task.
In these later years, my wife and I pray often for different people and circumstances and often we see wonderful developments in line with our prayers. But also, we see no changes in other circumstances. Yet we know that the Good LORD is definitely in charge and is working out his purposes.
The best sensation is when The LORD answers our prayers in ways we could not have imagined, in ways which are far more exciting and beneficial than anything we could have imagined.
In praying for other people who have asked us to pray for a specific outcome, we pray but also ask The LORD to deliver the outcome He would prefer – when He does that, we are all amazed and thankful and the beneficiaries are more amazed and grateful than they would have been had their own specific wish been granted. Such occurrences are not rare, and they sustain us in our ongoing prayers for others.
We keep praying and acknowledging The LORD as our Benefactor, as the Governor of circumstances and as our ultimate source of life and love.
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