"Whatever you need, He is."

Have you ever been in a crowded room, or at a football game and everyone is talking or yelling at once? Can you really understand anyone? Perhaps that person closest to you, but what about the little girl across the room, or the elderly man on the other side of the stadium? Can you understand them? Or even hear them in the chaos?

I've been thinking about this for the past 10-12 hours, crazy I know, but I wasn't able to sleep much and kept pondering on this one basic fact...God can. 

We had a precious little baby born into our church family last week and while baby Morgan is an absolute doll, she does have many health issues. She has driven many of people to their knees these past few days. Does God hear all of those? Absolutely!

While there are many prayers going up for Morgan, there are also prayers going up for the single mom raising children alone, the man battling cancer for the third time, a friend in California who's husband is battling ALS, my nephew who is having problems with his one and only kidney, he's 11, the missionary all alone in a foreign country just trusting, the victims of Hurricane Irene, and yet while these all seem like major prayer requests, God hears each and everyone of them. And answers with only the peace, comfort, mercy, grace and love that He can give. 

And before we think it has to be a major health problem or a catastrophic event that we can go to Him, think again!  The same God that hears the prayers over the major things, also hears the prayers over the minor things too. He hears the prayers of a worn out mom about to lose control. He hears the prayers of a little six year old girl that just wants to have a good night's sleep. He hears the prayers of an almost 11 year old boy who just wants to say "thank You" for a fun day. He hears. He listens. 

Do we need to keep things in perspective? Absolutely! We are human, we know no other way, but God, only He can handle the major with the minor. He can handle the prayers from the ICU pleading for answers and He can hear the pleas from the interstate of "Lord, please don't let my husband kill me over another speeding ticket!"  He's God.  He hears the prayers of those who can pray words over you and for you that would rival any fine work of literature and He also hears the moanings from a heart that has no idea how to pray or what to pray. He hears the prayers from those on their knees in suburbia, USA or those on their knees on a dirt floor of a third world country. He hears the prayers for the trivial to the prayers of the tragic. He hears. His heart is huge! He just doesn't love us, He can't not love us. He is love, the very epitome. Wow!

Our Associate Pastor spoke Sunday night and said something that has really stuck with me, "Whatever you need, He is."  WOW!! Isn't that amazing!?!!  He is the great I am. He was. He is. He always will be.