Mandi’s Testimony

Two weeks ago Pastor Dan shared some future attendance trends for the church and suggested that we “Prayer Walk.” I’m sure I wasn’t the only person sitting in Fellowship Hall that thought this sounded uncomfortable or weird. But, I called out and said, “Hey, Pastor Dan asked us to pray for the success of the Preschool babysitting outreach and look at what a success that turned out to be!”

Before it was a success, there were points where it seemed a little crazy, but I continued to pray. And then I was assigned to teach the Bible story with Tim and Becky. Becky was going to write the lesson and Tim and I were going to follow it. I thought it was going to be uncomfortable, but it turned out to be a good exercise for me to have trust in someone else preparing me and teaching me how to teach the lesson.

Afterwards I thought, Pastor Dan did a good job planning this dynamic between Becky, Tim and I. So I told him and he said, I had no idea that would happen and it wasn’t something I considered in my plan.

You know who did plan? God. He is a master planner. Once we went to him in prayer, I do believe he worked out all the small details – working through Sue and Krissy and Pastor Dan.

Yesterday I went on the prayer walk. It was wet and drizzly but it wasn’t hard. My partner was Melanie and she has a beautiful way with words. We prayed and walked and talked about struggles that we are facing in our lives and the struggles that we know others are facing in their lives. And then we figured that the families inside the houses we walked past are probably dealing with the same struggles. And we prayed for those families to overcome them. We had a good experience.

Sometimes the feelings of doubt and discomfort are Satan’s way of distracting us from God and his plan for us. We just need to remain steadfast in our prayers that God will guide us and reveal his plan to us.