Quick Testimony

Sunday night, at church, several people gave testimony of what God's been doing in their lives or of things they were thankful for. I felt really convicted about my prayer life when Bro. Luke gave testimony. He talked about Mary praying for the ants to go away in their house and the next day they were gone. I have a bad habit of praying only for what seem like big things but when it's something small I tend to lean on the arm of the flesh rather than going to God with my request. Instead of praying for the ants to be gone I probably would have tried every bug spray invented by man or allowed the boys to have a grand old time smashing ants all day.
This is something I'm definately working on. I was thinking about my relationship with my dad. Whenever I needed anything, big or small, I had no reserve to go and ask my dad, especially for the "small things" (can I have $10, can Crystal stay over, etc.). He was more likely to grant me the small things over the big things so I never hesitated to ask him for anything. He's a good father and seldom told me "no", only if it wasn't good for me, as any good father would. Matthew 7:7-11 are familiar verses that deal with asking and receiving. Verse 11 says, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" So that's what God's been working on me about. I desire to grow in this area that my children will grow up knowing they can go to God in prayer for ANYTHING! I don't have ants but I did have a lost mailbox key. It had been missing for almost 2 weeks and I was starting to feel pretty anxious knowing there were paychecks and bills in our mailbox. Yesterday morning I started scouring the whole house in a last effort to find the key before calling a locksmith. I searched and searched but didn't find it. Then I called the locksmith and they told me it would be almost $100 for a service fee and to change the lock and make a new key. I started to tell them to go ahead and come out here but I remembered Luke's testimony and these verses in Matthew and......prayed instead. Thank God for His Holy Spirit. About an hour later I was sitting in the office and the kids were playing outside. I was on the phone with Josh explaining what the locksmith said when Greyson runs through the back door with, guess what, the MAILBOX KEY! He found it in the dirt! God is ALWAYS good!