Many of you know I struggle with a foot problem. Surgery did not correct it, prayer and a number of other things are helping it. This week a new pain in the knee above my bad foot developed. I did some reading and it turns out the kind of pain I was experiencing in my knee can come as a consequence of my foot problem. Bummer. I had been experiencing some gradual improvement in my foot, now my knee was hurting bad enough I did not feel I could exercise on my elliptical machine.
Yesterday, with out any mention of this new knee problem, three people at church asked me about my foot. When asked, I just said I wasn't having a good week. This morning the knee pain was gone. Coincidence or answer to prayer? People have been very faithful to pray for my feet. I know that all the people who asked yesterday had previously prayed for me and I have no doubt they did after my answer. It was also the reason they asked the question - they wanted to know how something they had prayed for was going.
I think it was Mother Teresa who said something like this, "The more I pray, the more 'coincidences' I see." That is always a part of answered prayer - do we see it as an answer or do we see it as a coincidence. I always have to use faith to believe in answered prayer and to see answered prayer. Right now, I am a firm believer.
What was your last coincidence or answer and have you decided yet which it was? This Sunday we will talk about that.
For the journey...
Tim
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