A friend of mine worked for a few months with a tall young man from the Congo. Emmanuel.
Emmanuel knows violence and hardship and his faith is not complicated, like ours is. We who have lived with education and some degree of privilege oftentimes really have no idea what it means to seek God and to rely on Him.
Emmanuel loves God in the unconditional way that God loves him. He doesn't expect God to grant every prayer or to lift all burdens.
Here is what Emmanuel wrote to her about church one day:
Church was great Sunday, God always speak to me every
time someone preach. I know there is not something
new under the sun but the word always come on time,
when I want it, and I like to hear by putting myself
in receiving mode. Every time the word come, I hear
it like the first time, I enjoy it, and let the word
talk to me.
Ever since I first heard my friend speak of this man, my spiritual journey changed. I just want to ask God to work the mighty changes in my heart that He is working in Emmanuel's, just replace the doubting and questioning and being proud and self-sufficient with something that is more... sweet and faithful.
Father, create in me a clean heart and pure hands, with ears ready to listen and a soul ready to obey, like Emmanuel.
Imagine what would happen if an entire neighborhood or an entire city or an entire nation got on the same page with God through prayer
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