Blessings by Laura Story

BLESSINGS 

by Laura Story

       Have you ever prayed hard to God for something? However, when God's answer to your prayer came it is totally the opposite of what you were asking for? Have you had any experience wherein you don't understand the reason of His answer to your prayer? I remember the time when my mom would pray to God not to make my grandfather’s sicknesses worse. But what happened next was the opposite of my mom was praying for, my grandfather had a heart attack and soon passed away. This was one of the saddest moment, I saw my mom had. I was wondering why God had to let this happen, then I thought that God must have really granted my mom's prayer and healed my grandfather, but not as what my mother would have hoped and prayed for.

       I realized that God healed my grandfather spiritually and not the physical healing that my mom was praying for. God wanted my grandfather to be healed completely, that's why he gave him the true healing he needs. A healing where my grandfather would have no more pain and sickness in himself, no more loneliness and live happily with Him. This healing may have brought tears in my mom and our family, but it gave a relief for us knowing my grandfather will no longer be in pain. This taught me that most of the time God's answer to our prayer is different from what we were waiting for. This is because God knows what is best for us. And that is what He wants us to have only the "best".

         I hope you would enjoy the song "Blessings by Laura Story"! The song somehow describes how God's blessings works.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” 

declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, 
so are my ways higher than your ways    
and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55: 8-9

-by Tim

"Blessings"

by Laura Story 

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

And all the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear

We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if every promise from Your word is not enough

And all the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know the pain reminds this heart

That this is not

This is not our home

It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy

And what if trials of this life-

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise

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