How Prayer Works

How Prayer Works…I have no idea.  I don’t have any clue how God’s Sovereignty works with our responsibility to pray; how we can move the hand of God and yet He be totally sovereign over our every breath.  No idea.  Not a clue. And yet, somehow I know that prayer works, because God works.

Some of you know that today Dutch pulled boiling hot water off the counter all over himself.   In the split second it took me to pick him up I could see blisters already formed and broken open all over his forearm.  Then that silent moment that feels like an eternity right before he started screaming.  After getting him calmed down we checked him over and were amazed that the blistering was only on his forearm. We calmed him down, ran cold water all over his arm, making it into a game by doing the same with our arms, cut off his onesie, wrapped him in a blanket, then drove to the ER. 

I just have to say that it was amazing.  I texted several people for prayer and got my mom praying (which means all her little prayer warriors were praying too), and amazingly Dutch sat happily reading books at the hospital, only going crazy when they had to dress the burns.  We also had to praise God that we had our new car, with 4 wheel drive, because we were in the middle of a crazy snow storm, and there was no way we could have made it in our accord.   And, amazingly, once we got home Dutch never complained once. Then, on top of it all, we changed his dressing tonight and the burns are miraculously better. He still has bad blistering but the redness is drastically reduced, no swelling–it looked night and day better than before.  And he never even fussed as we changed his dressing.  Is that not a miracle?

All I know is that today God chose to work mightily through prayer on behalf of us and our little monkey. I don’t know how it works. I also heard of a horrible tragedy today in the life of a friend of mine. Why didn’t God answer those prayers in the way they hoped?  I don’t know.  I don’t understand how prayer works.  But today it did. Today God did.  And I’m so thankful for His graciousness to us today.  And thankful to those who prayed.