When you pray... Part Two!!

Last week, I was struggling with responding to God when He woke me up after I had asked Him to do so!  I kept snoozing Him.  Well, Sunday morning, He turned off the snooze option.

Saturday night, I had been really tired (shaking due to exhaustion), so I went to bed early, thinking I'd get a solid night's sleep and be ready to worship on Sunday.  I even prayed for a wake-up call from God, with the stipulation that it had to be after 4:30am, so I'd be able to get a full night's sleep first.

(Can you see where this is going?)

1:30am - The wakeup call comes.  Are You kidding?  I said "4:30", not 1:30!!

1:50am - Jenny wakes up needing me to change her and help her use the bathroom (she had started to go in her PJs).  While helping her, David woke up, so I found myself sitting on the step stool in the bathroom with two kids cuddling on my lap.

2:00am - I put the kids back to bed, grab a glass of water (I've been dehydrated at night lately), and crawl back into bed, fully intending on going back to sleep.  My watch beeped, so I connected with God.

2:15am - Since I'm not falling back asleep like I'd planned, I decided God must want me to use the time to pray (I've been doing a lot of reading about prayer for my classes this week), so I started to pray.

3:00am - My watch beeps, and I pause to reconnect in thanksgiving.

3:30am - Having prayed off and on for over an hour (praying for whomever and whatever came to mind), and still seeing no signs of sleep, I decide to play some Sudoku on my cell phone while laying in bed.

4:00am - My watch beeps, and I pause playing for a moment to reconnect with God once again.

4:30am - I vaguely remember thinking something along the lines of: Should I just get up now? My alarm's going to be going off in an hour and a half.  Plus, this is the time I told God He could wake me up.

5:00am - My watch beeps = reconnect with God.

5:30am - I finally start to drift off to sleep, just in time for J's alarm to go off.

6:00am - I'm finally asleep... until I have to snooze my alarm at 6:10am.

7:30am - Exhausted, I drag myself out of bed and quickly get ready for church... I have to be there with both kids in tow by 8:30am.

While I needed a good catnap this afternoon, I definitely enjoyed my time with God last night (at least for the first hour or so).  And who knows (but God), maybe somebody I prayed for during that time needed prayer right at that moment! 

If God can use me in the middle of the night, I'm all for it... as long as He gives me the strength and energy to get through the day!