Over the years, Catherine learned a lot about patience in prayer, particularly with her son, grandchildren and three step-children. Here is a prayer she offered up regularly:
Lord Jesus, You want honest words on my lips; no thought of mine is hidden from You anyway… I am puzzled about the Father’s timing.
You know how long I have been praying about__________.
I want to be teachable, Lord. Is there something you want to show me, some block You want removed, some change You want in me or my attitudes before You can answer my prayer? Give me the gift of eyes that see, of ears that hear what You are saying to me. Come, Lord Jesus, and abide in my heart. How grateful I am to realize that the answer to my prayer does not depend on me at all. In Your faith I thank You right now for a more glorious answer to my prayer than I can imagine. Amen.
And I have tried to be patient about the answer. I know that the seasons come and go in majestic sequence. The earth rotates on its axis in a pre-determined rhythm. No prayers of mine could change any of this. I know that Your ways are not my ways; Your timing is not my timing. But Lord, how do I, so earth-bound, come to terms with the peace of eternity?
As I quietly abide in You and let Your life flow in me, what freedom it is to know that the Father does not see my threadbare patience or insufficient trust, rather only Your patience, Lord, and Your confidence that the Father has everything in hand.
Republished from The Breakthrough Intercessor vol. 11, no. 1, Jan/Feb 1991.
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