My Connection Room

The movie, The War Room, spoke to me.  I wanted to be that kind of Christ follower.  Over the next months I pondered my devotional life and how I could become more consistent with prayers and praises. 

I needed a spot set aside for just that.  

In our home designed for us, my husband, John, had explained to our builder the kind of office he desired. It was a small space with a counter top and shelves.  After he became ill, he questioned me about how I would use that area after his death. My answer had been, “I’ll use it as my financial office.”  That satisfied him.  

I stood in the doorway and scrutinized that spot.  It would work perfectly.  I called it my “Connection Room”.  

On the wall above the counter I placed three corkboards.  The one on the left contained my prayer requests, written on pink 3 x 5 cards.  The center one was full of scriptures that spoke to me … promises and wisdom of God. The board on the right became covered with a combination of the pink card with a green card on top of it.  

These were my answered prayers.  

As the days and weeks passed, the board on the right acquired so many cards it reached maximum capacity.  Cards on top of cards.  

What a problem!

Even though I hated to remove them, I needed room for the future answers to prayer I would receive. So I made a “Believer’s Box”.  I stapled the request and the answer cards together and transferred them to that container.  It would be my personal record of God’s faithfulness.  

As I re-read each request and answer before placing them in the receptacle, my heart overflowed with praises and thanksgiving.  Such a loving God to care about these situations that may seem huge to us, but are so infinitesimal in His scope of the whole world.  

He is so very faithful. 

“But if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, God listens to him.” John 9:31 (ESV)