I’ve been reading this incredible book by Leif Hetland, titled “Giant Slayers: Ground Rules for Overcoming Life's Greatest Obstacles” and it’s been so life changing. This past week I’ve just been drowning in frustration at a battle I’ve been fighting for other people. It’s the same battle, but for multiple people who are walking through it. My prayers go unanswered. Or if God answers it... the people I pray for refuse to receive it. I felt defeated. I didn’t want to fight these battles anymore. I was tired. Everything met dead ends, whether from God’s side, or the people’s side. “Has God called me to these battles?” After I read this section of the book, and positioned myself to ask this question, I believe I felt the Father confirm: “Eden, you HAVE been called to this war on behalf of my daughters, but you are fighting the WRONG battle.” In that moment I realized... I’ve been fighting for something so long, that I didn’t realize I wasn’t fighting for the right thing. My prayers were not unanswered, it was misdirected; it was just the Father waiting for me to stop fighting. To take a step back. To realign my heart with His. And to ask: “Father, what is it you want me to do?” And after I asked that, the answers came at me so clearly, and it brought overwhelming peace and completely renewed energy to go into battle again. I finally understood what God wanted me to do, what he wanted me to pray for, the breakthrough that needed to happen. I thought I was praying for the right thing because it seemed biblical, it seemed obvious, like.. duh, this is what God wants for his daughters.... right?..... Not really. Sometimes even if something SOUNDS like the right thing by the Father, it does not mean it’s how the Father wants to move next. Take a step back. Realign yourself with the Father. Pick the right weapon. And try again.
