PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD
ISAIAH 40:3
One thing I have noticed in the Gospels is that anytime Jesus is teaching, He could have been saying things consistent with each other in the first few verses, He just got to another verse and say something completely different from what he has been saying before and you almost think this verse should not be here. It is so odd it has no bearing with what is being said before.
When you encounter scriptures like that, pause, because Jesus does not say anything that has no significance.
Many times that verse that looks out of place out of the whole text is the foundation upon which every other thing he has been saying before rest, that is the key that unlocks the whole thing.
One of such scriptures is Matthew 7:7-12, that last verse looks out of place, like it has no relevance to asking, seeking and knocking. But if you do those things without verse 12, it won't work. There is a dynamics to asking, seeking and knocking that makes it work. It is much more than that.
Many times in the scriptures, God symbolizes His coming(answer, visitation or response) with rain, Joel 2:23, Zechariah 10:1, Isaiah 32:15, Hosea 6:3.
Therefore, if His answers come in the form of rain that means, there is what we must do, so that when the rain comes we will have an harvest.
The wilderness will only turn into a fruit field because seeds has been sown in that wilderness such that when rain comes the seed will sprout.
Without you putting seed into the ground, even if rain falls ten thousand times, there cannot be an harvest. Isaiah 30:23a says, "Then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shall sow the ground withal.....". Rain is given to seed and then an harvest follows, Mark 4:26-29.
When the way of the Lord is prepared before Him, He comes, Isaiah 40:3, Hosea 6:3. However before He will come, there is what you must do.
Till your ground and put seeds in it and wait for His coming as the rain. If it is a visitation you want, you must sow the seed of hunger that leads to seeking him with all your heart.
Don't just ask for a visitation without hunger. There is a requisite level of hunger that brings visitation.
If it is increase in your business, what is the seed of increase you are sowing? Are you enlarging your capacity for excellence and leadership?
Prayer is not the only seed neither is confession, you must build physical capacity too.
If it is revival, you must sow the seed of intense prayer and fasting. If it is a financial intervention you must be ready to give sacrificially.
Forget about whether the ground is a wilderness, you just do your part, till it and put seed in it, Genesis 26:12. You have done your own part.
When the fire of God comes it doesn't fall on empty altar, Genesis 15:8-11,17. Put the sacrifice on the altar and wait for fire to come from heaven and consume it.
The power of God is not something tangible because it is spiritual energy, it only becomes tangible when it flows through something material, that is when a body is provided for it, James 2:26.
Part of what we must provide for God for his power to flow through our lives is a renewed and a sound mind, Romans 12:2, 2Timothy 1:7.
An unrenewed mind will limit and shortcircuit the power of God in that life. God is all powerful but your mind is a factor to seeing that power at work, Psalm 78:19&41.
It is not enough that we seek His power, we must find out what channels his power flow through and present them.
When we do, we have prepared his way before him, then He can come. Don't ask Him to come when you have not prepared His way before Him.
Anytime God wants to come, He demands that His ways be kept. Sanctify yourself three days, destroy the idols, circumcise the people, tell them to abstain from sexual relationships for three days, tell them to wash their dresses e.t.c. He doesn't just come anyhow.
We will continue from here in my next post by God's grace.
PRAYER: LOOK AT THOSE AREAS OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PRAYING BUT HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANSWERS, ASK GOD TO SHOW YOU WHAT IS MISSING.
SALVATION PRAYER
Anything short of you being born again and living a life of holiness and purity hurt Jesus so much. But you can make things right here and now by saying this simple prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus I come to you today. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. I repent of all my sins and I forsake them. Jesus, I invite you into my life, be my Lord, be my Saviour.
Wash me by your precious blood, forgive my sins and write my name in the book of life. From this day, I promise to follow you all the rest of my life. Help me Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
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