Hour of Visitation; Don't Miss Out on God!

         

Today I almost missed the time of God's visitation because I was too engrossed in the pain I was experiencing physically.   Thank God to the nudging inside that told me I needed to go for a walk.  Little did I know that God was sending me on an assignment to go and pray for someone who needed to recommit his life to Christ.  I don't know what would have happened if had stayed in the office and didn't go out.  Please note that God's purposes would have still been fullfilled in Kevin's life.  God would have sent him another labourer but I would have missed to witness that miracle of salvation.  If God has to, He can even raise stones to do his good pleasure but it is a privilege that He chooses to use earthen vessels like us.

          Many are times when we are too engrossed on what is going on in the physical world that we become desensitized to the spirit world.  Just because we cannot sense the spirit world, it does not mean it ceases to exist.   The spirit world is more real than the physical world.  after all, everything that is seen was made from what is not seen (Hebrews 11:3).  But how many of us can say we are constantly aware of what is going on in the spirit world?  More especially the things God is speaking to us and doing in us through His Spirit?  How about the wars that go on in the spiritual realm?   And more specifically the wars that have to do with the souls of men?  Heaven and hell are constantly fighting for the souls of men.

        You see, what God wants to do is not always obvious to the "fleshy" man.  You need a spiritual magnifying lense.  What would have happened to the widow at Zarephath if she did not see in the spirit and obey the word of the Lord spoken by the Prophet Elijah in 1 Kings 17:7-16?  She would have missed out on God's miraculous provision.  What would have happened if the boy in John 6:9 refused to give out his lunch of 5 small barley loafs and two small fish?  He would not have witnessed the miraculous multiplication and the feeding of 5000 people from a small boys lunch. Of course Jesus would have probably found another way but the boy would not have been part of the miracle.

           Luke 19:42-44 says, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that  make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”  May this not be our portion.  May we learn to be sensitive to His Spirit.  May we learn to silence the other voices and listen to him.  MAY WE NEVER MISS OUT ON GOD.  MAY WE NEVER MISS OUR HOUR OF VISITATION.

         May we never miss out on God becuase we too focused on our own problems.
May we never miss out on God because we are too engrossed in ourselves.
May we never miss out on what God wants to do because we are too focussed on our inabilities.
May we never miss out on God because we are too engrossed in our pain.
May we never miss him because we are too proud or argumentative.
May we never miss to hear the voice of God because we are too busy listening to others voices.
May we never miss out God's hour of visitation because we are too busy worrying about what we will eat or wear.
May we never give him a reason to raise stones to do his work.

         May we always remember that our response or failure thereof may cost someone an eternity.
May God help us to respond with an urgency that the assignment requires.  The King's busines  requires haste (1 Samuel 21:8).