Shorten and Precised

I am reminded today about Job's predicament and feeling directionless with his situations.

As I am praying for people today name by name and very personally, I found myself stuck in ways that I really do not know how to pray for them. I begin to think that maybe I am out of touch with these people that I do not know how to pray, or maybe I am out of touch with the Spirit that I am not knowing what to pray for.

Whenever I pray for someone, I focus on their immediate situation in their life and I want to pray specifically for them in those situations and figure out what I can pray for. But for some people, I feel stuck when I come to pray for them because everything I am trying to pray for ends up looking like I am controlling the situation.

Just like Job, as I was figuring things out and so that I know what to pray for specifically, but in the end I realized that my specific prayers seem to limit God and how He is planning to deal with their situations, because God could use brokenness for His purpose as it is with me.

So His sovereignty is again held in display that I am humbled and stooped low to allow Him to do what He sees fit and all I have to do now is to trust Him. At the mean time, I should keep praying for people to get to know Him more with whatever situation their are going through.

Although it may not sound good but my prayers are getting shorter in a way that even though I know what are the things to pray for, I begin to pray more about their walk with God first and then allow Him to lead me to pray for specifics that would come to mind.