7/10/2023 0 Comments Prayer changes things![]() While it may not be a right now word(save it for later), know that prophetic words are never a magic foretelling of your future(that’s not biblical). (…just read your Old Testament where there are plenty of prophetic words of God for us). God has been speaking His heart for His people through the prophetic for a very long time. I get you! For the record, it’s biblical. If you’re unfamiliar with the prophetic voice of God, I understand. More importantly, this experience gave me the confidence I needed to hear His voice for myself and others too. Later, I would learn to trust God speaking to me through others. But, her kind words made feel comfortable, like I was being welcomed home. As a Southern Baptist girl, I wasn’t accustomed to prophetic words and such. How could that be? She didn’t know me, but she was open to hearing God’s voice for a hungry girl who didn’t know what she was starving for in this life.Īt that time, I was just beginning to understand the Spirit-filled things at work in my life. He knew me.Īll I’d ever wanted was met in her words that flowed like honey over my heart. God says, ‘Into Me see, daughter.’ Look into God’s character and you will find the intimacy you’ve been longing for sweet girl…that’s the more you’ve been after.” Miss Betty whispered over me. ![]() ![]() The prophetic words spoken over me that night lit a passionate fire in me that’s never gone out. After the second night’s service, she pulled me aside and told me things only God knew. Lovingly, she wrapped 3 words around the longing in my heart and suddenly the more I longed for was tangible. She had something I knew I needed, but I had no idea what in the world it was.įortunately, Miss Betty saw what my heart longed for but had no words with which to communicate to her. She was unlike anyone I’d ever met before, older and wiser, and very peculiar to me. When I met Miss Betty at a women’s retreat almost a decade ago, I honestly didn’t quite get her. Then, my mind went back to Miss Betty’s secret sauce for seeing change. Nothing else had worked all my activity and repeated prayers for more hadn’t amounted to any real change in my life. But if big change was what I was after, how in the world could sitting still be the answer?īe still and know that I am God. Then, louder still until I couldn’t ignore it anymore. And, that’s when I began to hear Psalm 46:10 in my spirit. Give me, give me, give me.” I cried.Īll the while, God kept hinting that what I was asking for wasn’t the more He had in mind for me. Not until Miss Betty shared her secret with me did I see big changes begin to take place. Change happened when I began to pray in a way I never had before.įor years I’d been praying and asking God to give me this or that…more of His character, more in my coffers so I could do more for Him, more of what I thought I needed. Honestly, I didn’t know how to pray for the breakthrough I so desperately needed. Sadly, my little girl prayers lasted long into adulthood. When I began to pray differently, big changes started happening in my life. This one shift sets off a landslide of possibility that truly changes everything. When we turn our prayers of “give me, give me, give me” to “You can take it all, God,” something miraculous happens. ![]() However, the heart behind our prayers is capable of bringing our breakthrough and some mighty big changes with it. Regrettably, there’s not one magic prayer that changes everything. For God had always intended that Moses would ask, and that he would respond.Do you need a breakthrough prayer over your life? I’d be lying if I told you I had one. He tells Moses (the mediator he has raised up) that he intends to destroy his people, and then relents when that mediator pleads for mercy on the basis of what he has already promised. How does a sovereign and personal God who dwells outside of time, relate to a sinful people with whom he has made a covenant? Exactly like the LORD in Exodus 32. He makes three key reflections which we must hold together: I’ve been dwelling on this question, and I’ve found Don Carson’s talk (see below) very helpful. And whether or not God wipes out all his people (except for Moses), is surely not one of the little decisions of life. Is it not true then that God has determined everything? Has he perhaps determined the big things of history, but left the little decisions up to the actions and prayers of man?īut surely the big things of history are always the result of lots of little decisions. In Exodus 32, God changes his mind in response to Moses prayer, which seems to show pretty clearly that it’s worth praying! ‘Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.’ Exodus 32:14. If God has determined everything, what is the point of praying?
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