I woke up last Monday morning with those four words recycling through my mind over and over. “What do you want?”
I do not know if they were the end of a dream, or if it was the LORD asking me, “What do you want?”
I decided to go ahead and answer that question. I had spent a restless night with pain in my shoulders, arms, neck, and hips, so my immediate thought was, “I want this disease in remission, the pain and fatigue gone, so I can walk a couple miles a day again.”
Then I thought about what else I wanted. It came down to two things. First, I want a meaningful ministry to the LORD once I retire from The Way.
The second thing I want is simple, I want my children and grandchildren and their spouses to know and serve the LORD.
“Jesus replied to them, ‘Have faith in God. I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.’” [Mark 11:22-24 HCSB]
If I truly want these things, I need to be praying and asking for them. And if I am praying for them, I better “believe that [I] have received” healing, ministry, and salvations. Hallelujah!