OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-THURSDAY-14/04/2016-WHEN YOU NEED A MIRACLE-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
Memorise
And
call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Psalms 50:15
Read
1st Samuel 1:9-13
9 So
Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now
Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
10 And
she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
11 And
she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of
hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and
remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a
man child, then I will give him unto the Lord
all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
12 And
it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth.
13 Now
Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not
heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
KJV
MESSAGE
There is one thing that a child of God needs
to know and do when he or she needs a miracle. This is to call upon the Lord in
prayer. What is a miracle and why do we need it? Simply explained, a miracle is
the supernatural intervention of God in the affairs of men. This intervention
basically alters the established laws of nature. At times, the devil
manipulates some natural phenomena to deny human beings some basic things that
make life pleasant. For example, when Jesus Christ was travelling in a ship
with His disciples, the devil manipulated the wind against them so that they
may suffer a shipwreck. The disciples went to Jesus Christ in the ship and
cried for help. Matthew 8:26 says:
“And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of
little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a
great clam.”
Some so-called children of God are so
hypocritical that, even in the presence of the Lord, they still pretend as if
all is well, whereas they have unimaginable issues with their spiritual,
physical, material and financial needs. In the case of the disciples, they
cried to Him for help; they told Him exactly how they felt about the tempest.
The danger of death was imminent and the disciples did not pretend as if nothing
was wrong. So, Jesus Christ responded to their cry and stilled the storm. I
pray that as you cry to the Lord today, He will not just hear but also respond
to your cry in Jesus’ name. The storms in your life will miraculous cease today
in Jesus’ name.
In our Bible reading for today, we see what
one must do when he or she needs a miracle. Hannah needed a miracle, but from
year to year she had been going casually to Shiloh until that wonderful year
when she realised she needed to do what she had not been doing before; she
offered fervent and heart-rending prayers. She prayed so hard that she lost her
voice and Eli thought she was drunk. At times when I see how some of my
children pray at our periodic meetings at the Redemption Camp in Nigeria, I
rejoice because the tempo of their prayers signifies that they are people who
need urgent miracles.
“And she was in
bitterness of soul, and prayed
unto the Lord, and wept sore… now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips
moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been
drunken.”
1st Samuel
1:10, 13
The amazing thing about the above story is
that Hannah was not even offended, when she was misunderstood by the high
priest who was supposed to know when an individual was in serious communion
with God. With joy also I always pray with my children when I see them praying
desperately in need of miracles. My prayer is that as you pray to God today,
your miracle will reach you sooner than you expect in Jesus’ name.
Action Point
Tender your deepest heart
desires to God today in faith.
Bible in one year
2nd Samuel
3:1-5:16, Proverbs 10:8-21
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