My first response in any time of need should be to pray and turn it all over to God. However, this has taken me quite a few years to learn!  As a young person I prayed to God for protection, and with a grateful heart, knowing that He was always with me.  But it was not to the depth or understanding of prayer I have since learned through Bible studies and daily prayer as I have matured.

I could feel God with me as a struggling college student, working to put myself through college.  With all the late nights of studying and writing papers.... I knew the Lord was carrying me through and prayed each day for His guidance!  God was with me in my prayers of grief as I lost my Christian parents. He comforted me with His assurance that... “now they are in My loving care!”

As I moved on to marriage, children, and businesses, I tried to lay my anxieties at His feet knowing that I could trust in His grace and mercy.  Not all my anxious moments and what I did were perfect!  But, over time, I found through each difficulty, to release my desire to be in control, and give the struggle over to the Lord, because He is sovereign over all things.  I have learned to not focus on what could I do, but rather to ask, Lord what will You do?

Prayer has become my strength at all times.  I know I can open my heart to Him in all things.  As my husband was experiencing a heart attack last fall, I called my family of prayer warriors and our Faith Prayer Team at church, to pray for God's intervention for him.  As our family prayed in the waiting room, a wave of relief and assurance came over us...our loving and faithful Father had once again heard our prayers and blessed us with my husband's recovery!

Now that I'm in my “Golden Years” of life, I have truly witnessed the power of prayer many times. There are just a few lessons that God has taught me I would like to share with you.  One is that we must go to God first in prayer because we are powerless on our own.  Then we trust the Lord in all things, even when we confess our sins before Him. His love for us causes us to always give Him the praise and glory for His goodness.  Lastly, we listen and respond to the Holy Spirit's prompting that someone else needs your prayer for them today. I would like to ask this question of you....who is He placing on your heart to pray for right now? 

Gratefully His,  Louise Lunski