YOU NO DEY HEAR WORD?
Revelations
2:29
He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches (KJV)
Anyone
who is willing to hear should listen to the Spirit and understand what the
Spirit is saying to the churches. (NLT)
Proverbs
4:20
My Son, attend to my
words; incline thy ear to my sayings (KJV)
Pay attention, my
child, to what I say. Listen carefully. (NLT)
God always speaks. He’s
a speaking God. We are his off springs. He likes to communicate with us. When
we pray, it ought to be a two way conversation. When we communicate our
thoughts to God in prayers, we ought to leave room for him to speak. He speaks,
he always does, he always wants to. But do we hear what he says even though we
claim we are listening. Do we hear with
our inner ear? Do we wait to hear all he needs to say to us at that particular
moment and do we hear to act on what he has said?
Don’t
know how to receive?
God hears our prayers
and answers them. He answers when we go to him petitioning according to his
will, the thoughts he has put in our hearts. These thoughts which are consistent
with his word are the answers to our request. This is our material in the now
-the answers to our prayers. We are to hold on to it, keep it in mind, put it in
our heart, and say it with our mouth till it’s immersed in our spirit. That’s the
receiving process. Also we are to look
out for it’s manifestation in the physical. It will come to us, it will be in
our reach, and it will be around us eventually. It’s our answer, our
opportunity - we should take it.
You
no dey see?
Sometimes our answered
prayers are just there around us. Like
Haggai saw the well after she had cried out to God, afraid that her baby will
die of hunger and thirst (Genesis 21:14-21). Like Abraham saw the ram caught up
in its horns after which he was stopped from sacrificing his son Isaac (Genesis
22:12-14). And that’s how we should see.
You
no dey recognize?
It is one thing to see
and it is another to recognize. The children of Israel saw Jesus and his ways
but majority of them still doubted in their hearts that he was the messiah. Like
the children of Israel some of us see the answer to our prayers and but still
don’t recognize; even though our hearts burn, even if it tallies with what God
had said. Maybe it is because it appears too good to be true, may be we had an
idea of what it should like in ours minds or maybe we are just too afraid to
embrace and accept that which God has given. But we asked and here it is, right
before us.
In this year, we should
pray that our eyes be opened to see, our ears be opened to hear, our hearts be
opened to receive and that the spirit of God helps us to recognize all that God
has given to us.
