Blessed are those who wait for the Lord

If you are in a situation today where you have been told that something is impossible, remember that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed and do not doubt then just watch and see what our Awesome God can do.

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It doesn’t matter how long we have been a Christian, God always has something new to teach us in His Word. What a blessing it is when we read something in the Bible, we have read hundreds of times before but suddenly it becomes alive. This is exactly what happened to me today. I couldn’t wait to get to a computer to encapsulate just what I felt God was sharing with me, so intimately I could not stop the flow of tears. I was reading 1 Samuel 1 where Hannah’s womb was closed up by God and she was crying out to the Lord and Eli the prophet thought she was drunk. Upon realising this was not the case Eli said; 1 Samuel 1:17 ’Go in peace, and May the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of Him’. Realising that Eli was a Prophet her face was no longer downcast. She had faith to believe.

After conceiving came the really difficult part for Hannah, fulfilling her promise that she would give her son back to the Lord for all the days of his life. Wow, as a mother that seems such a difficult thing to do. How many of us hand our children over to God, but the moment trouble comes we take them back!!? Once that baby was placed in our hands would we be able to fulfill that promise? What an act of selfless love Hannah demonstrated here and because of her faithfulness God blessed her with other children, three sons and two daughters. Actually, it’s not just a case of handing our children over to God and taking them back; what other things have we promised or covenanted to Him and when God has blessed us with our answer to prayer have we reneged on them and pretended that wasn’t part of the agreement? Matthew 5:37 tells us; ‘All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one’, meaning that we should let our yes be yes and our no be no. Therefore, if we have made a promise or covenant to God let us be faithful in carrying it out, but not out of duty, instead as an act of love and worship. God loves a cheerful giver.

Coming back to the scripture I started with, the most touching part to me was Hannah’s prayer; 1 Samuel 2:1 ‘My heart rejoices in the Lord, in the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance’ and 1 Samuel 2:7-8 ‘The Lord sends poverty and wealth, He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honour’. I didn’t want to write the whole prayer but it is so powerful I would urge you to read it in its entirety for yourself, I am sure it will bless you. I realise that perhaps the reason it touched my heart so much is that my daughter was in a similar situation. She was told a few years ago that there was virtually no chance of her conceiving a baby. I told her on that day that nothing is impossible for God and have waited and trusted every day since. As I write this my daughter is now 14 weeks pregnant and we know without a shadow of a doubt that this is a miracle and a gift from God. There is nothing we could have humanly done to change this situation, it is by the Divine Grace and Mercy of God alone. We realise we don’t deserve this blessing, there’s nothing we have done to deserve it but we Thank and Praise Him for His abundant love and mercy to these sinners saved by grace.

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If you are in a situation today where you have been told that something is impossible, remember that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed and do not doubt then just watch and see what our Awesome God can do; Ephesians 3:20-21 ‘Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen’.

Isaiah 30:8 ‘Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!’

May God bless you abundantly.

Author: Lyn Hunt 


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