Putting God First

Well it happened again, I got a couple of letters from my least favorite agencies.  I have someone that I believe was put into our path by God to help use deal with them so I scanned the letters in and emailed them to him, sure that I would receive a reply later that day.  Normally, that's all the time that it takes, out in the am and reply by the afternoon, this time was different.  No reply came Monday and while it was outside of what we normally experienced with him I tried not worry.  Tuesday came and went also with no reply.  Tuesday evening I was starting to listen to the lies of the enemy and was started to go into a light panic and I knew we needed God.  So I went to my wife and told her that I wanted to start praying again - together every morning and every night before bed like we used to.  She was very receptive and we began to pray before going into work and before going to bed.  Wednesday, we continued praying and went to Bible study after work.  I would not have minded skipping and going on home to watch TV or play video games, I have a lot of experience putting myself first, but I felt that this was the right thing to do.  In addition to praying, I came back to my blog and began writing again but there was still no answer from our man.  Each day the enemy would bring his lies back again and again, no matter how many times we would rebuke them he would wait for another opportune time and would try again.  But we did not give up, on Thursday, we went to another church that had invited our pastor to speak and what a service that was, the Holy Spirit was in the church that night!  But still no reply at the end of Thursday.  Friday morning came and as I sat at my computer and waited for the new email to load, I said that I knew that the reply to our message would be there in God's perfect time and as the messages loaded, there it was the message that we had waited all week for.  The difference between Monday and Friday?  We started putting God first in our everyday lives and it made all the difference.