Pray this Way
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…”
Ephesians 3:17-18
I ‘really’ identify with the disabled people we serve at Joni and Friends. Because they struggle hard. And I do what they do; I pray like they do, that my afflictions in this wheelchair might lessen. But more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer up all the pain and problems to God as a sacrifice of praise. I’ll confess that my strength in prayer these days is scant. So for all the concentration I can muster, I don’t want to dissipate my prayer time seeking physical relief only. Rather, I seek spiritual growth. For that’s how I can know God deeper, higher, richer, wider, and much fuller than if I were without afflictions in this wheelchair. And if you have a disability, I ask you… To pray the same.
Finding God’s Strength and Purpose through Chronic Illness
Disability often barges in unannounced, unexpected, and unwelcome. One day you are healthy—the next you’re not. Mandy Meehan knows firsthand how it feels to cope with the unexpected onset of disability.
