Lift Up Your Voice!
Faith Capsule: Are you shutting your mouth when you need to cry out?
1 Samuel 1
It is written concerning Jesus, “Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.” (Luke 17:12-14) The lepers deny distance from denying them their miracle healing. The word stated that they stood afar. Do you trust God for a miracle breakthrough in any area of life? As a leper, law restricted their movement. What is it that is standing between you and your miracle when Jesus said, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) As an acclaimed believer, let it be registered in you that the enemy cannot be more powerful. Jesus came and paid it all on the cross for us and we have to know to engage Him to possess the abundant life He brought to us.
The Ten Leper did not only devise a way to circumvent the law that restricted them from getting closer to Jesus but they also cried out loud. Are you shutting your mouth when you need to cry out? The word of God stated in Psalm 81:10, “I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Often time, confronting challenges demands opening mouth wide. When man makes the choice to remain quiet on a ground where help is available, man’s challenge will continue to embrace man. If you will know to open your mouth wide, God will not deny you His attention. The Ten Lepers could not be quiet but were loud when they lifted theirs voice and called for mercy.
The Psalmist suggested about how to receive from God when he stated, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help.” (Psalm 121:1) How are you calling on Him? Hannah must have been quiet to herself in her prayers while enduring provocation from Peninnah at the time she was barren. In one of her trip to Shiloh, as a result of provocation she received from Peninnah she cried to God like a drunkard. Eli must have been seeing Hannah coming to Shiloh every year but the year of her breakthrough, she prayed like a drunkard and was mistaken for a drunkard by Eli. You do not have to afford affliction but resolve affliction by crying out in uncommon way.
Prayer for today: Ask God to incline His ear to your prayer.