One of my prayers for a few months has been for God to help me grow in stepping out in boldness when it comes to pray for healings, deliverances, miracles and so forth… and to witness the manifestation of Him through me, as His vessel, for His glory! I’ve been praying for such and have seen Him move but I want to see growth! …the next breakthrough! I want this to become second nature in my life. Over the past few weeks, my prayers in this have been more fervent and, God answered. But it didn’t end the way I thought…
During our ministry in Ghana, we had a prayer wall where we had different subjects of prayer requests on sticky notes. We as a team, pray for the prayer requests on the wall and once a prayer is answered, its moved over to the “Answered Prayers” section.
One day, I was praying for some request and a gentleman came into the lobby and began asking me questions about the wall. After explaining to him, he asked me to pray for him! His prayer request was for healing in his leg – he had previously had a leg stroke. In that moment I felt the stirring of God within me, that God was there with a response to my prayers – He was there with my breakthrough! At this moment, it was quite a bit past midnight, I was really tired and my bed was at the top of my mind… I said a prayer for his healing and restoration of health. Invited him to Elim City church and went to bed.
The next morning was Sunday. As I was sitting in church listening to the pastor preach, I kept hearing God speaking to my heart about the night before. It was almost like God had another sermon for me… you see, I’ve been praying and asking and waiting for God to give me a breakthrough in this area of my life and God, the every faithful One, He came through! I don’t know how to explain it to you but when that gentleman approached me, I believe I would’ve received my breakthrough in that moment if I hadn’t allowed my flesh take over. I was in a hurry to get to bed and didn’t even recognize in that very moment, what God was trying to do. I could’ve acted upon the stirring in my heart and spirit of what God was speaking for me to do. God wanted me to do more than just say a prayer. But I didn’t listen in that moment…
Why do I say all this? It’s not for pity or anything of such but to encourage you. We pray asking God for breakthroughs, asking for answers to prayers, asking for His guidance in one area of life or another but, when He responds, when He leads, are we responding to that? God won’t always come through the way we could expect or hope for. God will sometimes come when we least expect Him. Or, He may have given you an answer already but maybe it came in a way you didn’t think it would and you chose to brush it off. Don’t allow your fleshly thoughts and desires to take over… follow His lead, respond to Him when He speaks. No matter what time of day or night or when and where. He wants us to be interruptible. Just as Jesus, when He lived on this Earth in the physical flesh, was so in sync and unified with God, I so strive to be the same – in sync and unified with Him – to move when He moves and speaks.
I hope this comes as encouragement to any! So that you too don’t miss out on your moment of breakthrough and don’t have to continue to wait for the breakthrough. He will respond but, will we respond back? It’s for His name to be glorified, for His kingdom to be furthered!
