In a journey of physical pain you begin to feel very isolated and detached from your family and the things you once did. It is good to communicate this isolation so that your support system can better keep you in the loop of things and to take the pressure off of having to be at special events when you just can’t handle it physically.
In a journey of emotional/spiritual wrestling with God, you feel faithless and swear that God isn’t listening. Who better to get assurance than to go to a fellow believer so that they can get on the spiritual warpath of prayer on your behalf? No, they cannot get into the ‘holy mud pit’ with you and they shouldn’t even try. However, in my experience they have gone taken themselves from me. I don’t even know how to pray for them any more. My own heart becomes heavy because I have missed out on their journey and with the absence, who is to say we will be in the same place when they come back?
In a journey of a spiritual quest like a mission trip, most understand the need of prayer support. On the flipside the prayer support is a learning process. From experience my prayer had very little heart beat until most recently. My prayers have come more alive. Declaring His Attributes has blown me away. Here in this journey type often there are outcomes of different places. Yet, if you are barbaric in prayer, I have great hope the journey’s end finds you in the same place.
Journeys are definitely God-Made to share with others. If you exclusively travel it alone, you have taken a special gift and opportunity away from those that support you.
Rhinos can't see 30ft in front of them. But rhinos run together full force. In plural form rhinos are known as crash ~ tBW
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