Today’s Devotional Yellow Sprinkle Prayers 1 Thessalonians 5:17 – Pray continually. (NIV) Our four-year-old granddaughter knows what she likes, and today, it’s yellow. She boldly wears a dazzlingly bright yellow short set and chooses mustard for her sandwich. She scribbles only with buttercup-coloured crayons and grins mightily as we journey past a field of golden sunflowers. Our special day together passes in a sunny yellow haze. Soon we will spend a few minutes together at the local coffee shop. I will have my coffee and Kaia will have her vanilla donut with sprinkles. Why am I surprised to hear her request for yellow sprinkles? Oh, oh! The sprinkles are never yellow and Kaia is four. I mean, today of all days, she is really four. She is not fond of refused requests. Oh, oh! “Please, Lord,” I said aloud. “Will you please give Kaia yellow sprinkles today?” And we went in, to a place no grandma wants to go — a place that could spell meltdown for both of us. And in that never-before-yellow-sprinkle coffee shop, stood a rack of vanilla donuts… with yellow sprinkles. “Ah,” said Miss Kaia, smiling joyfully, “God gave me yellow sprinkles.” I slowly sipped my coffee, grateful, of course, for yellow sprinkles, but also regretting the many other times when I could have prayed and didn’t. What would happen if we really took advantage of God’s advice and prayed without ceasing? Prayer: Lord, help us to trust You with yellow sprinkles, those prayers that seem too insignificant to mention. Amen. Brenda Wood |
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Carley that is so true! I have had the same experience lately…the same book suggested as a read..God has lots of ways of getting our attention don’t you think???Brenda
Brenda… I remember Pastor Cliff telling us that if you hear something more than once in a short amount of time that God is trying to tell you something. I was telling a friend just the other day about a problem that bothered me a lot. He said to me “have you prayed about it?”. I said to him that I though it was silly or it’s not the kind of thing that’s OK to pray about. He told me to go and pray about it anyway. I wrote just a few days ago about how God tends to send me gentle reminders and pokes now and then to make sure I don’t forget something. Now I’m reading about little Kaia’s yellow sprinkles. Thanks! I’m gonna look for yellow sprinkles next time!