Could there be somewhere between Heaven ‘n Earth,
Answers to prayers to which you never gave birth?
Prayers you prayed earnestly in times of need,
‘D-o-A’ due to instructions you
failed to heed?
Instructions in Mark 11: 23–26 that Jesus laid out;
You know: ‘Have faith, forgive,
speak and don’t doubt.’
Then there’s a really critical one to add to this
list--
‘Believe you receive when
you pray’;
these are the gist.
Just between you and me, here’s one thing I’ll
admit:
It’s usually the latter two that put me in a fix!
Perhaps we all may need help to find faith
unwavering,
‘Believe we receive when we
pray’ –
Umm, how baffling!
So that our joy may be full, Jesus said, ‘Ask, then receive,
For only in My presence to
full joy will you cleave.’
So be sure to fill-up regularly with this joy
unspeakable,
Ensuring your faith to receive doesn’t become
incapable.
If the black domino in this picture is God’s answer
when you pray,
What role in this scenario could white, falling
dominoes play?
These are precursors to your answer from God, you
to bless.
Pre-conditions His angels must arrange, the answer
to manifest.
Pray, then imagine what the answer’s precursors
could be.
Could they be something God is trying to get you to
see?
Or something He may speak to move others ‘off
the dime’?
Whatever they may be, chill out, stay in faith and
joy...
...give 'em all time.
As God’s angels go to work, getting each precursor
in line,
Devils track their progress, then seek your
thoughts to realign.
Then, as angels put on each precursor God’s ‘glory stamp’,
More and more 'noise' there
will be in your enemy's camp!
The voices of fear, doubt and frustration seem not
to quell.
You’ve heard them many times before and know them
well.
Recognize them quickly; let them trigger you to ‘Stay…’
Stay in joy and rejoicing, to
help you stay in faith!
This requires learning to stay in the presence of
The Lord,
Which is done by keeping head and heart on His
Sword.
In His presence, one-by-one, these voices will be
sentenced!!!
For only there, will all these voices eventually...be silenced!
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I appreciate feedback from readers of this blog, most of whom are seasoned, Spirit-filled Christians, highly educated, and also highly knowledgeable of God’s Word. In response to this poem, one reader has written, “The post is clear.” Feedback from two other readers suggests this poem may not be clear: one of whom understood, “Jesus is the precursor” and another reader asks, “Give who faith and time?” Hence, this clarification.
ReplyDeleteIn a real sense, Jesus clearly is our precursor/forerunner, since He precedes everything, and has gone before us to make The Way by which we can be saved. However, in the context this poem, the precursors are clearly stated to be whatever pre-conditions God’s angels may need to arrange in order to give birth to (i.e., to manifest) His answer to our prayers. Behind the scene in the spiritual world, and unseen to our eyes in the physical world, each prayer likely has a set of preliminary conditions that need to be put in place in order for the answer to the prayer to show up. In some cases, God may be binding evil spirits who seek to deflect delivery of the answer or assign additional angels to get the job done (e.g., see that last chapters in The Book of Daniel), or He may need to touch another person’s heart to say a word, make a particular decision or even give a gift to you, etc.
In the above picture, these preliminary conditions are represented by the white, falling dominoes – things we can’t and don’t see – things that need to fall into their right places in a particular order and timing; while the last black domino represents the final answer to our prayer – the part we can clearly see or experience physically.
Bottom line: When you see or physically receive the answer to your prayer, just know there were several preliminary conditions that God and His angels had to orchestrate to deliver that answer to you. This is why having patience and staying in faith and joy during the waiting period and process are so critical, because The Bible reveals, unless God works a miracle to skip over His ‘seed, time and harvest’ principle, it takes time to deliver the final answer to a prayer. Why else would He prompt us to have patience??
I trust this clarification is helpful. Again, I appreciate your feedback.
Good job on clarifying.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work
ReplyDeleteThank you~
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