Good morning friends/ministry partners
As I began to reflect and pray in the wee morning hours, I was praying about a particular matter and even began to voice this foolishness - Lord please make this thing work out, I have had so many disappointments and immediately I stopped and began rejoicing. When I began to reflect I AM GLAD GOD NEVER ANSWERED THOSE FOOLISH PRAYERS I prayed as a baby Christian. I looked deep and I realised God had rerouted me after every single disappointment into something greater!
He brought me not just into better but into best!
He will do the same for you my friend just let go and let God. At the time of disappointment remember God is for you, he will never leave nor forsake you and he always has good plans for you. TRUST HIM!
Listen to these words:
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death
We have proved God’s faithfulness so many times.
I heard the Lord say out of your disappointment it is time to birth your Samuel
Amen
Let me give you the account of the birth of Samuel. He was one of the greatest Prophets who ever lived, the first of the Prophets who became a Judge in Israel and he was the last of the Judges before the reign of Kings began.
1 Samuel 1
3 Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies at the Tabernacle. The priests of the Lord at that time were the two sons of Eli—Hophni and Phinehas. 4 On the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to Peninnah and each of her children. 5 And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion[b] because the Lord had given her no children. 6 So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children. 7 Year after year it was the same—Peninnah would taunt Hannah as they went to the Tabernacle.[c] Each time, Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat.
8 “Why are you crying, Hannah?” Elkanah would ask. “Why aren’t you eating? Why be downhearted just because you have no children? You have me—isn’t that better than having ten sons?”
Hannah’s Prayer for a Son
9 Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle.[d] 10 Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord. 11 And she made this vow: “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the Lord, his hair will never be cut.[e]”
12 As she was praying to the Lord, Eli watched her. 13 Seeing her lips moving but hearing no sound, he thought she had been drinking. 14 “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”
15 “Oh no, sir!” she replied. “I haven’t been drinking wine or anything stronger. But I am very discouraged, and I was pouring out my heart to the Lord. 16 Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”
17 “In that case,” Eli said, “go in peace! May the God of Israel grant the request you have asked of him.”
18 “Oh, thank you, sir!” she exclaimed. Then she went back and began to eat again, and she was no longer sad.
19 The entire family got up early the next morning and went to worship the Lord once more. Then they returned home to Ramah. When Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea, 20 and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[f] for she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”
Lord I pray for everyone reading this message that you will stir new hope and faith again. You will give beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning. Stir new vision of all the good plans you have ahead. Give us strategy to move into all you ordained. Strengthen us in the inner man and physical body. In Jesus name
Amen
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