Prayer To Quit Trying To Figure It Out
When God promised to give Abraham a son, he and his wife Sarah laughed at the thought of conceiving, because they were both very old. They were trying to figure out how God was going to do it.
Genesis 17:17. Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
Genesis 18:12. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
So often, our human minds cannot comprehend how it is possible, even though we have a word of prophecy, a promise from God or a blessing that we await.
We then start to reason within ourselves and try to understand how it would happen. Physically, it may not make any sense.
There may be no signs, no thick clouds, no cosy weather when the Lord says He would send down the rain. So we begin to lose faith in, and lose sight of what He has said.
The worst way to relate to God is by looking at the circumstances in order to believe in His promises. The last time Sarah looked at her circumstances, she gave her husband to another woman, creating a nation without God. A nation outside the promises of God.
Hebrews 11:6. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
It takes faith to please God. You may not see the clouds, but it will rain because the One who said it, is faithful to His words. You may be barren according to the doctor’s reports. But you serve a God who makes the barren fruitful, and puts a song in the mouth of those without child.
You may be ill, or having an infection or tumors, but the God you serve, whose name is Jehovah Rapha, is the greatest Healer. By the stripes of the Lord Jesus Christ, you are indeed healed.
You may not be qualified, but your God has a tendency of qualifying the unqualified for His own glory. Yes, maybe you are laughing like Sarah and Abraham, but, hold God at His word. He will surely fulfill His promises to you, and none of His words will fail.
Do not waver. Keep your gaze on the One who promised. Obey and follow Him till you obtain the promise. Do not settle for Ishmael, your Isaac is coming.
Let Us Pray
Dear Lord, I doubt, I lose faith in You word and Your promises to me. I consider what is possible and what is impossible.
I stagger at Your promises and lose my faith when there’s no natural way possible for Your promises to be fulfilled. But Your Word shows me that everything You have promised in the past, You have fulfilled it, and You have done wondrous things.
You have parted the Red Sea. You have caused water to flow from the rock. You have raised the dead. You have caused a donkey to speak to a prophet and You have healed the sick. You have walked upon the waters, opened the wombs of barren women and given them babies and You have fought battles and won them all.
Are you not the Lord God almighty who reveals what is concealed? You put to shame the strength of the strong and confound the wise. You have the final say and nobody says a word after You.
My Lord, and my God! Help me to stop trying to figure out your ways. As the west is far from the east, and as the heavens are far from the earth, so are your ways far from mine and Your thoughts far from my thoughts.
Deuteronomy 32:39. ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
You control all creation. You have a covenant with the sun, and You set boundaries for the oceans. You kill and You give life, and there is nothing in this creation that will not fear and tremble before You.
Help my faith to be in You and unmoved by circumstances. May my heart understand your Sovereignty and omnipotence. In the wonderful and most precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.