May 1st – Capsule 1
TOPIC: WHAT DO YOU WANT SO BADLY?
BIBLE TEXT: Let us lay aside every weight and sin which easily beset us … Hebrews 12 vs. 1
You will start getting well when getting well is what matters most to you. Let your desperation drive you beyond concern about the opinions of others. As long as you are more conscious of people than you are of God, you will never get what you need.
When Hannah, Samuel’s mother, prayed in the temple, there was so much locked inside her that when she began to pray and pour her heart out, Eli thought she was drunk (see 1 Samuel 1 vs. 13).
God is raising up people who will confound us – radical Christians. Like those on the day of Pentecost, they were hungry for God. They will raise the roof to get to Jesus. They had carefully laid plans, and cry like blind Bartimaeus, “Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me” (Mark 10 vs. 47). When you are blind, all that matters is receiving your sight.
When it looks like there’s no way out for you – you start shouting! Faith is born in the storm, and conceived in the incubator of impossibility. Don’t panic, Don’t quit. Don’t stop short of the prize. The greater the conflict, the greater the conquest. There’s something good inside you and God wants to bring it out.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to patiently wait on you.
Insight: So, how badly do you want it?
I will wait on God to give me. It adds no sorrow! Glory
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