Ecclesiastes 3:10-12, “I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied. He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy the good life.”
In 2021, I gave birth to my youngest son, and life changed for me as I knew it. While I waited years for his arrival, the thought of how much my life would change had not occurred to me. Home life, friends, leaving the house for daily activities, the way I served in church, and, most of all, my prayer life and how I spent time with God. You see, I had this routine; my kids would leave to school, and I had all the time to spend time in prayer with God, then worship or read my bible.
But most of all, praying is my sweet spot! Prayer has always made me feel connected to God and confident in who I was. Then the season changed in my life with my newborn, and then an infant, and I no longer had that time for long stretched out times to pray and spend time with Him. I remember feeling dry and not connected with Him, because my prayers started looking more like 10–15-minute prayers in the morning, while rocking and feeding my baby. Some days, it was driving in the car for a doctor’s appointment or picking up kids from school.
This season in my life was different, and I really struggled with what God was doing. I had started to believe a lie that if it wasn’t a “certain” amount of time with God, maybe He was not hearing my prayers, or that, somehow, I was losing my relationship with Him. Looking back, I know now, it was a time in my life that God used to break off performance-based Christianity, because the truth is, God meets us right where we are at!
While God does want us to be intentional about prayer and our relationship with him, God is really after so much more. He was teaching me how to break off lies and believe that my short prayers can be and were just as powerful as the ones I was praying before having my son. While I was trying my best to work hard and squeeze in all the “prayer and God time,” and feeling like I did not have the time or energy with a new baby to do it all, He had all the love and grace to meet me and answer some powerful prayers in my short time of conversation and prayer with Him. All He wanted for me was to enjoy my life and enjoy my new little one. He knew, and will always know, what’s going on in our lives.
In the seasons of our lives as women that are busy with little ones or overwhelming schedules, God is still so loving to pursue us and meet us for those short powerful times with Him.
I want to leave you with this encouragement of a few people in the bible who prayed short powerful prayers, and God met them there.
1. 2 Chronicles 20 – Jehoshaphat prayed about judgement and sin over the people and God answered him.
2. Numbers 6:24-26 – God shared a short prayer of blessing for Moses to give to Aaron so he could bless the people.
3. Matthew 8:2 – A leper asked Jesus for his healing, and he was healed.
We want to thank Brenda Martinez for sharing this post.
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