It has been some time and I have pondered this prayer session for some time.  It is time that I write it down in an effort to share it with others but more importantly remember what I have learned.

You are likely asking how cookies, an obscure item, plays in prayer and a relationship with the Creator and my Savior, Jesus Christ.  I may have ask the same thing prior to having this experience however now it all makes sense.  This is the way of the Holy Spirit working in us revealing things in a way that we least expect.

I had taken a trip with a dear friend up north, anything above Washington DC is north to me, just prior to Christmas one year.  It was a wonderful time of fellowship with him and other friends that I do not often get to visit.  He had a prayer counselor that has helped him and his family quite a bit and one of the places that we were headed was there to visit her. 

Upon arrival we were all introduced and he went with her to fellowship n prayer leaving the remainder of us alone to visit the library in the church where her office was at.  After he had finished I was offered the opportunity to visit with her as well.  I accepted however to this day I really do not know why except maybe to find a new perspective on communication with the Lord.

Now I had been told by my friend that praying like this is something that he has done on more than one occasion and most of the time the Lord will meet you in prayer and reveal to you things that you are to know.  This started by her explaining to me that it is nothing more than clearing your mind and waiting on the Lord.  She begun to pray and ask for the revelations of the Lord to be given unto me. 

Now if you have ever attempted to clear your mind you know that this is not easy, it is still difficult for me, something I need to practice more.  While she and I prayed it became easier to shed the things of the day that were in my head.

After some time we completed the prayer and she inquired what it was that I felt, what had been revealed to me.  At first I really did not know however as I sat there it came as a flood to me that I had been caught as a sinner by Christ Himself. 

What  I saw in my minds eye was me as a young child in a kitchen of white with black and mainly white linoleum.  There was the icebox to the right, cabinets with glass fronts containing dishes, cups and saucers, there was the sink identified by the chrome faucet and handles sticking up as well as the chrome handles on the cabinets and drawers.  From the perspective of a child I was looking up at these and therefore could not make out the counter top other than the black trim that seemed to border it.

Next to the right side of the counter near the ice box was a stool.  This was the kind that was a stool with a back like a chair as well as steps that could be pulled up and out the front to make a set of steps, two from pulling up and out and then the seat itself.  This was the means to reach the cookie jar which was the only thing that I remember on the counter.  It was here that I found myself with the steps folded out and one knee on the seat that would be the top step and the other leg, foot on the lower step reaching into the cookie jar.

You know how you know, you feel it inside, that your doing something wrong?  Well here I am with my hand in the cookie jar.  She ask; and where was the Lord?   What could I say as I had my hand in there I looked back at the kitchen door and who was there watching me but the Lord.  I had been caught as we are always caught when we sin.  She ask; what was the Lords reaction?   All I could feel was disappointment from Him, His expressions, body language; and the words, I told you to stay out of them, just one and get down.

Mathew 18:2-3 says, And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

I am a child of the Creator, I am a sinner, I am a new Christian and I know that I can never live up to the worthiness the Lord deserves.  We can however recognize that we become worthy Only through the Lord and our realization of the burden that was carried to the cross for us by the Lord.

By now I hope that you see that this was a wonderful experience for me one that I hope to repeat but surely with a different revelation from the Lord.  I believe that we all need to stop and listen pray fully to the message that is being revealed to us.  As Psalms 46:10 says: Be still, and know that I am God. 

by Dalelynn

Organisation Intersex International

The Cookie Jar