HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
Memorise: For there is hope of a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch
thereof will not cease. Job 14:7
Read: 2nd Kings 4:1-7, Bible
in one year: 2nd Chronicles 35-36, Ecclesiastes 5:1-9
If you are a student of the Bible, you
would have discovered through divine inspiration that the presence of God in
any situation causes a turnaround of that situation with positive results. For
example, when God comes into the suitation of a debtor, the debtor can become a
lender to nations and a poor widow could become the richest person in her
community. There is a beautiful story in the Bible reading of today, which
illustrates the fact that the poorest
can become the richest and that an outcast can become a celebrity. When you have
an encounter with God, and you carry out the divine instructions given to you
at the instance of the encounter, your story would become a reference point
that people would use in pointing out the wonders with God when she came across
Elisha the prophet. She got a miracle which altered the course of her life’s
history.
“Now
there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto
Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy
servant did fear the LORD: and the Creator is come to take unto him my two sons
to be bondmen.” 2nd Kings 4:1
There are certain lessons to be learnt
from the story of this widow such as the fact that she desperately cried for
help. From this, we see that for any hopeless fellow to receive help from the
“Present Help in the time of need”(Psalm 46:1), he or she needs to cry to Him.
God is eager to intervene in the affairs of those who will cry to him for help.
The Bible in Jeremiah 29:13 says:
“And
ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your
heart.”
Those who seek God with all their heart
will find him. As long as you decide to manage your situation or remain at your
present level and condition, the cry of your prayer will be far from being
desperate. But when you are really tired of your suitation like this widow, you
will cry out to God desperately. The Bible did not say the widow had a chat
with Elisha, but that she cried unto Him because she was in desperate need of a
miracle. Also, we are not told that the widow murmured before Elisha, but that
she cried. The widow did not grumble to attract the attention of the prophet of
God; she cried out for divine intervention. The widow got attention and her
problem was permanently solved. God is going to answer your cry today and you
will sing a new song of victory, super-abundance, peace and joy unspeakable in
Jesus’ Name.
Action Point
Cry unto God and tell Him where you
“shoes hurt” and He will grant you permanent relief.
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