Power of a Praying Woman 10/17/06 9:02 AM Page 13
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and embrace Jesus, white robes and all, and feel His embrace of you? So do I. The good news is that this is the way God wants you to feel. God wants you to long for His presence. He wants you to ?nd your ful?llment in Him and nothing else. He wants you to walk closely with Him. He wants you to increase in faith and knowledge of His Word. He wants you to put all your hopes and dreams in His hands and look to Him to meet all of your needs. When you do, He will open the storehouse of blessing upon your life. That’s because these things are His will for you. But none of this happens without prayer.
Where Do I Go to Get My Needs Met?
Every woman has needs. But many of us are guilty of looking to other people to meet them—especially the men in our lives. Too often we expect them to meet the needs that only God can ?ll. And then we are disappointed when they can’t. We expect too much from them when our expectations should be in God. My friend Lisa Bevere expressed it best when she said that for centuries women have “wrestled and waged war with the sons of Adam in an attempt to get them to bless us and af?rm our value. But this struggle has left us frustrated at best….In the end, it is all a senseless and exhausting process in which both parties lose. It is not the fault of the sons of Adam; they cannot give us the blessing we seek, and we have frightened them by giving them so much power over our souls. We must learn that the blessings we truly need come only from God.”*
* Lisa Bevere, Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry, (Nashville: Tommy Nelson, 2002), pp 189-90.