The Rooster Intervention Protocol | Praise Podcast

Do you ever think your prayers are too small for God to be "bothered" with? Think again . . .

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00:00:01 --> 00:00:07 In the Bible and in our own lives, we see prayers both big and small.

00:00:07 --> 00:00:12 The God who knows the number of hairs on our heads cares about them all.

00:00:12 --> 00:00:25 Hello and welcome to MoMo634, the daily podcast chock full of faith-filled inspiration and motivation.

00:00:25 --> 00:00:29 MoMo634, Motivational Moments just for today.

00:00:47 --> 00:00:51 You already know I'm a bad patient.

00:00:51 --> 00:01:00 Add to that an enormous pain wimp and you begin to see my fever-fueled dilemma of yesterday morning.

00:01:00 --> 00:01:07 My particular form of kryptonite comes in the genetic predisposition to migraines.

00:01:07 --> 00:01:12 Since Flumageddon descended, Day 8 for those of you playing at home,

00:01:13 --> 00:01:20 We've all had one extreme symptom or another, some multiple.

00:01:20 --> 00:01:23 One had a fever that would not break.

00:01:23 --> 00:01:27 One had a barking cough all day and night.

00:01:27 --> 00:01:35 Mine was a four-day migraine, the pain of which I'm not sure I'd felt even with the worst of them.

00:01:35 --> 00:01:38 And there have been some bad ones.

00:01:39 --> 00:01:51 On Saturday evening, we knew with all of us so ragtag we were going to assemble at home at some point during the day on Sunday for worship service, so we went to bed.

00:01:51 --> 00:01:54 Well, some of us did.

00:01:54 --> 00:01:58 I was in so much pain I could barely doze.

00:01:58 --> 00:02:06 Even my trusty go-to of Excedrin Migraine couldn't touch it, and you could only take two in a 24-hour period.

00:02:08 --> 00:02:25 So as dawn began to break over our home, ushering in day four of this migraine, who should I hear but the neighborhood rooster I introduced you to in the episode, Here Come Da Rooster.

00:02:25 --> 00:02:34 After a four-day pain bender, little sleep, and raging battles with cough and fever, hello multiple symptomer,

00:02:35 --> 00:02:41 I will admit I was not holding charitable thoughts, to my shame.

00:02:41 --> 00:02:53 I was sleep deprived and just about out of gas as I waited for the blessed countdown clock when I could take more Excedrin in a couple of more hours.

00:02:53 --> 00:02:55 In fact, shortly after the crowing began,

00:02:56 --> 00:03:02 I caved and took them a little early and rubbed peppermint oil on my temple.

00:03:02 --> 00:03:09 All I could remember thinking was, if only someone would shoot that rooster.

00:03:09 --> 00:03:19 Now, I'm not a violent person, and longtime listeners know I couldn't even watch Lassie or Bambi as a kid because of pet peril.

00:03:19 --> 00:03:24 As I recounted in the episode, it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

00:03:25 --> 00:03:34 Thus, forgive me for the uncharitable thought and chalk it up to the circumstances described leading up to it.

00:03:34 --> 00:03:45 Meanwhile, as I lay there, whimpering in pain by this time, unbeknownst to me, Hubby was also thinking.

00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 I must have drifted off right as he woke up to the sound of the rooster.

00:03:49 --> 00:03:55 and having a clearer head, he took the sensible road and prayed for me.

00:03:55 --> 00:04:00 James 5, 14 through 15 says, Is any one of you sick?

00:04:00 --> 00:04:07 He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

00:04:07 --> 00:04:12 And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick.

00:04:12 --> 00:04:14 The Lord will raise him up.

00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

00:04:17 --> 00:04:23 My husband is one of our congregational elders, so he began to pray.

00:04:23 --> 00:04:39 He asked the Lord to have mercy on the daughter he loved, and as he did the mouths of the lions in the den with Daniel, to stop the mouth, beak, of the rooster so I could rest and heal.

00:04:40 --> 00:04:56 He said he dozed off right after that, because during the whole long prayer he offered on my behalf, until we woke up a few hours later, with my migraine gone, none of us heard that rooster.

00:04:56 --> 00:05:01 Yes, bring him your concerns, big and little.

00:05:01 --> 00:05:04 Like the persistent widow in Luke 18, he will answer.

00:05:07 --> 00:05:16 Our meme for today says, You Matter to the God of Everything.

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