This afternoon Karen came in and helped me pack up my office. Now I have a pickup full of books that I need to store somewhere! I guess our garage is going to be the storage spot. I also spent time today trying to find tapes of messages that I could send to churches. Last month Karen and I picked out one message to send, but I wanted to find one or two other good ones to send. Two that we picked out are from my series on Philippians--that is my favorite book to preach on. It seems to really relate to all of us and has lots of practical application. I tried to find another message from Romans or Matthew. But whenever I picked out a message and played it, there was a problem with it--like the mic didn't work right or no sound at all or other technical problems or it just wasn't one of my best ones. Karen said, I guess God wants you to just send the two we picked out already. How much control does God have over things like that, I wonder?
Relating to that, as I was studying for this Sunday's sermon, I came across a statement in one of the commentaries. I'm not sure I will remember it exactly right, but it was discussing Paul's plans in Romans 15 and him asking for prayer. The statement basically said, there is a biblical tension between God's predetermined plan of events for us and situation-changing power of prayer. How much do our prayers determine (or change) God's plan for us?
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