The Name of Jesus

There is great power in just speaking the name Jesus!
I suffer from anxiety a lot and one night was particularly horrible.
It was maybe about 1am and I was having such a frightening time that it had reduced me to a sobbing mess. I didn't want my husband to worry about me because he had to get up and go to work in just a few short hours. So I had tried to get some rest in the guest room that night.
Which, the rest part was so not happening! =/
I wanted to pray to God but I was such an emotional mess it was hard to gather my thoughts long enough to make anything understandable emerge from my lips.
Then I remembered a song I had recently heard on the local Christian station. One of the lines in the chorus says, "When you don't know what to say, just say 'Jesus'."
And there it was, suddenly playing through my head.
Well, I just started crying out to Him, "Jesus, Jesus!" and He is SO FAITHFUL!
My older sister is someone very special to me and God has always used us to speak to each other when we're having trouble listening to Him directly.
As I lay there crying and saying Jesus's name, my phone suddenly buzzed and I knew it could be an answer.
My sister, who I hadn't heard from for a while, had texted to see how I was doing. At 1:45am.
I wanted to lie and say everything was great but I knew God might be using her in this moment.
So I texted back to her where I was tonight and the truth about how I was really doing.
She texted me back that it was only a time of testing to grow stronger in The Lord and that I WOULD overcome this. She gave me Isaiah 43, which has been a verse God has used throughout my Christian life over and over again.
It was also a verse that my Pastor had used in his sermon just a few days before.
I told her it was funny that's the verse she would give me because I'd been hearing it a lot lately.
The Spirit works a lot that way; by confirming what He's telling you through several sources.
I asked my sister if I could call and talk to her.
When I called her, she admitted to me that she hadn't been walking very closely with God lately but that tonight she had clearly heard from Him and He was saying, "You need to reach out and encourage my daughter, Sarah, because she's having a hard time tonight."
She told me how He must really love me because she hadn't talked to Him in a while and He was very persistent in telling her to call me.
I laughed a little and told her how I was literally just crying out to Jesus moments before getting her text.
She was amazed that God was using her even when she hadn't been seeking Him lately.
I asked her about the Bible verse she gave me and told her God had used that a lot with me lately.
She told me how earlier that year, before her mission to Africa, she had gone through a significant time of anxiety and would sing those verses as loud as she could until her anxiety would subside. She told me that the enemy always attacks right before God uses us to His Glory.
We had a good conversation and I ended up encouraging her to start seeking God again and walk in His presence. So, God used both of us to encourage each other that night.
I went to sleep that night feeling very loved by both my Savior and my sister. I felt loved that Jesus would hear my desperate cry right away and actually answer me within seconds of it! It blew my mind and gave me a new confidence in His Grace.
We truly serve a compassionate God!! =)

Psalm 145:17-19
"The LORD is righteous in all His ways and faithful in all He does.
The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them."