Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
"James' solution is profoundly simple: When you want something and can't get it—ask God for it...But there is one proviso: we must ask with a quiet and submitted will. We cannot dictate the time or terms of our satisfaction...
...We can 'draw near to God' in prayer...In His presence we find the satisfaction we crave.
We must 'wash our hands and purify our hearts'—cleanse ourselves from all selfish actions and attitudes that defile us and demean others."
~from Growing Slowly Wise, by David Roper
In a previous post (I Want to See Your Glory!), I wrote about God's timing during the physical healing of Adam—that God is slowly peeling away Adam's afflictions. I am sure that all who know Adam would have preferred an instant healing. As Roper reminds us, we do not get to dictate the the time or terms.
With God's timing in mind, lets collectively spend dinner time asking God to restore Adam's memory of his college years. Adam attended the University of Colorado from August 2000 through December 2002. He transferred to Oregon State University in January 2003 and finished in May 2004. He majored in Computer Science at both schools.
Adam's education enabled him to become a software programmer. I love what Ben Hickman, Enterprise Sales Manager at Microsoft had to say about Adam:
"Adam is an excellent software engineer who can be consistently relied on to
get the job done no matter what. He takes great pride in the work that he does
and is a team player who will do whatever is needed to succeed."
Oh, how we wish he were still programming! In an email, Amy wrote, "Programming has always been so near and dear to his heart I would love to see him remember code."
In addition to praying for memory of his college years (2000-2004), let's pray that Adam would remember how to code. His specialties are C#, C/C++, XML, HTML, object-oriented design, and extreme programming (XP).
Pray that God would allow Adam to access that knowledge that he used so well "to get the job done no matter what." Just as he is a great team player, we need to be team players and join together in asking God for restoration of Adam's memory of his college years and programming knowledge.
Are you hungry? Pray more.
• Pray that God will continue give Adam and Amy a fresh and new love for each other.
• Pray for peace for Adam, often times his brain injury gets upset, causing him to be angry with Amy.
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