This morning our management staff gathered to walk/run around our facility and start our day off with prayer. It was awesome! Aside from the onslaught of mosquitoes (Lord, are they really Your creation?) It was a time for us to practice what we preach. After the prayer time, we had staff. During the staff meeting, I began to launch into our plans and then we concluded the staff meeting in prayer. After staff, my wife called to ask how it was going and I gave her a brief synopsis on staff, when she suddenly stopped me cold. She said, in effect, “Bil, those plans you made, shouldn’t you pray about those more?” Sometimes I hate it when my wife is right! (this happens to me often). Jessica was not being a “know it all” or anything, she simply knows me….I had prayed, even preached on prayer, but I was already off to the races with “my plans.”’ I immediately called several of our staff back into my office to slow my plans down and tell them that I need to pray more about everything.

Here’s the point. God has led me to have a greater emphasis on prayer, but if it does not change the way I live, plan, run staff meetings, etc….then it is only a program and not a lifestyle. Before all of this occurred I remember praying and asking God to guide my steps today; and He just did. He just kept me from making a common mistake; moving too quickly without bathing my plans in prayer until God’s plans take over. This whole new level of prayer is not really raising me up right now- it’s even better, it’s humbling me to wait on the Lord. Will you wait on the Lord with me?