Winning the Battles

While driving back home from a vacation with my family in Cannon Beach, I was reading through my bible and I found Exodus 17:11-13...it talks about Moses holding up his hands to insure a victory over the Amelekites...it said that whenever he raised his hands, the Israelites would win, but whenever his hands would drop, the Amelekites would have the advantage...I realized that this is how our walk with God is. We have to constantly be near him so we can win the battle. Over the past 2 or 3 years, I've enjoyed testing my prophetic skills in guessing many tiny little things; such as what number a die will roll, how many minutes until the next phone call, etc...recently I noticed that my skill in this area had depleted... Every time, I would guess an answer that was way off of the actual answer. In the rush of summer with cherry picking and vacationing, I had neglected God...I had busied my mornings with other things, and had forgotten to talk to my friend. I realized, while reading this passage in Exodus, that this is what I had been through. During the trip home, I spent time pressing into Him, and...it was so cool, it was like confirmation for this word......we were on the road, passing a train parallel to us on a train track, and it had sooo many cars attached to it...I was trying to guess how many engine cars it had hauling it...the first thing I heard was "4". I immediately ruled the number out of my head because it seemed like a ridiculous number, I thought something more along the lines of 2 engine cars. But I still heard "4", so I said "God I can have faith for 4 train cars, if that's what you said"...
To my utter amazement, as we headed past the front of the long train, I spotted 4 engine cars. My heart leaped with joy, because I knew that God had spoken to me...
I realized that after spending only a few minutes with the Creator, that he revealed more to me, than I could have made up.

Most people think little things don't matter: saying hello to someone or even smiling, but maybe a smile was exactly the thing they needed to live that day...I think the little things matter. Even noticing that my "propheticness" had become more tuned in to God than to me after spending time with him was huge.