Pray For Wind

“He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.”
Psalm 104:4

Where I live the presence of wind is an everyday kind of thing. In the summer it makes triple digits a bit more tolerable. In the fall it shakes the leaves from the trees and brings rain. In the winter, the wind just makes the miserable weather more miserable, but in the spring it can help hold the dense fog at bay. Wind is a mysterious weather phenomenon that can be as gentle as a whisper or violent enough to cause massive destruction. No matter its strength it almost always brings change with it. 

Have the winds of change been blowing in your life? Maybe you need to have a new wind to blow through your life. Perhaps there has been no wind at all in your life. Change is hard, as humans we do not really care for change, but a lack of change or forward motion is even worse. Being in what sailors call the doldrums is no fun. The doldrums are found near the equator and can trap sailboats for days or weeks at a time, no wind means no movement. We can get stuck in the doldrums of life too - a state of inactivity that can bring about mild depression, listlessness or the feeling of stagnation. So how do we deal with the winds of change or lack thereof? We pray.

Today’s passage tells us that the Lord uses the wind as His messengers and fire as His servants. In the book of Acts the Holy Spirit arrives in the upper room sounding like a mighty wind and flames appeared above all who were present. What had those followers of Jesus been doing? They had been praying and waiting for their next instruction, waiting to know the next part of the Lord’s will to be made clear. 

Once they had the answers, they acted obediently and courageously to do all they had been asked to do. The changes they experienced were huge and not at all without risk, but they also had peace. 

If you are in the midst of a windstorm of change - HE is there with you, praise Him, continue to seek His will and He will provide. If you are in the doldrums - pray and ask for the winds of change to start blowing, but be prepared to set sail when they do, He will chart your course, it may not be safe but He will be with you. 

No matters what you are facing…pray for wind. 

A Prayer
Father, you use everything around us to communicate who you are and to let us know that you are near. Thank you for understanding that even though we do not like change, we need it to become the people you want us to be. Help us to pray for your wind to guide us. In the name of Jesus, who commands the wind, we pray - Amen.