God heard me?

After posting this question above on my Facebook page yesterday, I realized that I haven't prayed to God for a few days. I have been busy and have been tired, and there seems to never be enough hours in the day for a woman to get things done. It's like us women go, go, go 24/7, and can still keep going if there were more hours in the day. It's not that we want to, but to get things done so they don't fall over to the next day.

My husband Ron was in bed already and I just got back from Zumba class and finished eating a grapefruit and drinking a La Croix cran-rasberry water over ice, when right at that time, I started to pray. I started asking God if this was the way he intended 2010 of my life to go?

What was my purpose and God's reason's for me to go through the painful heartache I have felt and the sudden abandonment I was sadly hit with from people who have been in my life as short as 5 years and all the way up to now, 51 years?. Why me? What was I suppose to get out of that painful experience? I started to question God, if he was really up there or just some being we are to pray to daily and to thank him for all that has happened in our lives good or bad? Why should I believe in the Bible?, why should I read it?. I spoke to God telling him that I don't believe he is here for me or hears me when I pray, so it is easy for me to not pray and not feel bad or give a second thought about it because I felt I wasn't being heard or acknowledged during my prayer time. I reached down under the coffee table and grabbed my bible and just held it on my lap for a few, trying to connect with God or feel something.

So I take the bible and randomly open it to a page and I told myself I will read whatever my eyes land on first. I open my eyes and this is what my eyes landed on.

>Bible memory verse #5:

I command you-to be strong and courageous!!!! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9- What does it mean to be strong and to have courage? It means to act in faith, trusting that God will help you through each days challenges. It means doing what you know is right, even though you may act alone. It means choosing to live God's way, not your own.

Wow!!!!!! So God does hear me to my surprise. The biggest smile came across my face but I was thinking this was just a fluke and I ask God why I feel he doesn't hear me or help me when I need some help or encouragement? So the type of person I am is if I ask for a sign and think I got it, I need another sign to show the first sign was real and not my imagination. I closed the bible and again, closed my eyes and opened the bible to a page and opened my eyes to read again another Bible memory verse, but now #28. It said:

And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is open to everyone who knocks.

Luke 11:9-10- Some people wonder why God doesn't answer their prayers. In reality, this often means they have hardly given God a chance.

They may have prayed a few and not gotten what they wanted. Jesus did promise to give if we ask, but he expects us to keep asking. Prayer should be an integral part of our lives not just practiced in emergencies. Make talking to God a habit. Tell him about everything at anytime of the day.

Double WOW!!!! I believe the first sign and bible verse were for me and to confirm it, the second bible verse answered my question. I think God was like Dr. Phil to me. God told me like it is, plain and simple. Thank You God. I will be talking to you later today, I promise, just like Jesus did.