One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. Acts 10:3a
Yesterday we focused on the amazing power one person can have in influencing others and helping to change their lives. Today’s Scripture opens with “One day”. We often attach the phrase one day to a negative life changing moment, such as an accident, a bad medical report, a death, a divorce, etc. And those situations truly do change our lives from that day on. But what about attaching them to good things, a good medical report, a birth, a marriage. Now how about attaching them to prayer. Think about it, every time we pray we are making a deposit into a heavenly investment account that was created the day we began to pray. Every prayer from that point on adds not only to the account, but generates compounding interest. And one day a prayer will make it be the time for the dividends to be paid on that account. We will receive an answer that is greater than anything we could hope, think, dream of imagaine, for those who are praying in the power of Holy Spirit (Eph. 3:20). Now think about what kinds of prayers we are praying. Are we praying for things that will only get answered through prayer? I mean those big audacious prayers like we learned about the other day. Those kinds of prayer might take longer to get answered, and take more of an investment on our part, but then the dividends will be bigger too.
Maybe that’s some of our problem. We want to see the big answers right away without ever investing the answers from other answered prayers. I mean think about it, how many answered prayers go unnoticed or acknowleged because the answer just wasn’t amazing or big enough. So instead of our trust and faith in God growing, we just take the answer for granted and don’t reinvest it. So our faith never gets stretched and doesn’t develop, our focus isn’t on the anticipation on how is God going to answer this and enjoying getting to know Him better while waiting. It’s on the dream itself and how are we going to help God get it for us. I wonder how our lives would change if we had vision beyond our resources, personally and for ministry? I can truly tell you the times here at EFC saw beyond our resources to minister to others and reach them with the Gospel of Jesus, God always showed up in unbelievable ways to show His power and glory. This should make us ask ourselves the question, how are we stewarding the small misracles that God has provided? Have we even noticed the provision as coming from HIm? Let’s pray that Holy Spirit would open the eyes of our hearts, so we can see God in everything and realize He is the true Provider.
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