I can't deny it; I am not perfect and I admit that what I did was wrong. I was married off very young to a man much older than myself. I was more of a social asset for him than a life partner, and he showed me no affection whatsoever. So when a young man started paying me attention I was flattered and taken in my him. To my shame it didn't take him long to persuade me go to his rooms where he seduced me. The door flew open! My heart seemed to stop in my chest! Three men burst in and grabbed me by the arms. They didn't give me any time to rearrange my clothing as they dragged me off crying. I was paralysed with fear, because I knew I would almost certainly be killed. They were Pharisees, and had caught me in the very act of adultery. I looked despairingly around for my lover; surely he would protect me, or had they arrested him as well? I searched his face, but all I saw was a smirk and and a wink to the men who were dragging me away. I had been set up and betrayed.
They hauled me down the road and then flung me in a heap before a man I had never seen before. Immediately they challenged him. "Teacher", they said; "in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" I was petrified with terror. In my peripheral vision I could see men around me stooping to pick up jagged rocks from the side of the dirt road. I looked up at the stranger before me. He had no rock in his hand. There was no look of contempt on his face. Instead, his eyes seemed to reassure me. Then he bent down and, instead of picking up a rock, he wrote something in the dust with his finger.
I couldn't see clearly from my angle but it looked like a word written in Hebrew. The Pharisees kept on throwing questions at him, harsh and clamoring and eventually he straightened up and I heard him say, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Then he stooped once more and wrote another word in the sand. The crowd lent in and peered at the words he had written. My heart was racing, my eyes were awash with hot tears of shame and terror and I was at the point of passing out, yet I was aware that something else, something strange was happening. The men had stopped shouting and a supernatural silence had descended on the crowd. There were no sounds at all, not even a dog barking or a child crying.
Then I heard a muffled thud, and another, and yet another and I saw small puffs of dust rising all around me as one by one the men dropped the rocks they were carrying. Then they started to leave, the older men first, and then the others, until only my 'saviour' and I were left. He looked down at me and said, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," I said. Then in a voice thick with compassion he said, "Then neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin." He reached down, took me by the hand and helped me to stand.!
Father I am so thankful that you are my Jehovah Jireh. I thank you Lord that Your word promises me that you will never forsake the righteous. Lord, thank you for revelation of what I need to do in my life. Lord, circumcise my mind, my heart and my soul. Take those things that are spiritual hindrances out of my life. God change me right now. Take away those things that would cause me to destroy any blessing that you would bring into my life. I surrender any unforgiveness that I may be harboring. I repent right now Lord of anything that I have done against your Word. I will no longer focus on the things that I don't have, but rather I will focus on You Lord. You are my first love and everything that I need. God, I need you to take me to a higher place in your. I need you to keep me right in the middle of my purpose so that Your plan for my life will be manifested here on earth. God you are almighty and I stand in faith today trusting that everything I need and desire according to Your Will shall come to pass as I keep your commands. I want to spend more time with you Lord. I want to work in ministry to advance your Kingdom.
Lord, I will stop coming to you with more petitions than worship. I ask that you take this wheel right now Lord and work in me! I not only want to get aligned to your will for my life but also the timing that you have originally set forth. I command Satan to loose me right now and I cancel any assignment that he is planning. I take comfort in knowing that my blessings may be delayed but they are are not denied. I can't wait to see what you are going to do in my life as I work in Your Kingdom. I call my blessings down from heaven in the name of Jesus! I thank you and praise You for who you are and for being The Great I Am! These and all blessings I ask in The Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
You're on the edge of a breakthrough. Your blessing is around the corner. Or what about "Your heart's desires will be fulfilled". How many times have you heard these words when someone is encouraging you while you are waiting on your requests to be granted and your visions or desires to come to pass? I have heard them too many times to count. I must admit that at times, waiting is nothing more than frustrating! There are times when I just want to raise my hand and say "Lord, Did you forget about your child down here?" There are times when I feel like living for God is just not bringing about the rewards that are promised although I know that is not true. I see others getting blessed (or so I think) and I lay sit wondering when my greatest blessings will come into manifestation.
I pray, I obey, I love, I turn my cheek to enemies, and I am reaching to go to a higher level in God. But still, I wait. These are the times when I really have to get into God's Word to be reminded of His promises. What I've learned through prayer and revelation of scripture is that God's will always comes to pass. However, our freewill gives us the power to delay our blessings.
WOW! You mean to tell me that some of the things that I have asked God for that have not been received because of me? God revealed to me that there are things that I needed to work on in my life in order for other blessings to be bestowed upon me. God doesn't work according to time. He works according to when you are ready for the blessing that He has stored up for you. The natural part of us is always worried about time while God is saying if you just take up your cross and follow the road that I have paved for you, time wouldn't be a factor to you either. If we want to live the life that God has planned for us, we have to walk the path that He has laid in front of us. We must change on the inside.
God doesn't look at the physical circumcision. In order to extend into the greater blessings, there must be a total circumcision of the heart, the mind and the soul! God knows the plans that He has for us and I am certain that His plan is much greater than any plan I could have for myself! God also knows when we are ready to receive what we have asked for and He will not present it to us a moment before we are ready! While we are waiting, God is working - on the inside of us! I felt God saying to me, "My child, I don't need you to keep praying to me for the same things. I know that which you have asked and I am working on it. I need you to spend more time with me and let me mold you so that you will be ready to receive the greatness that I have stored up for you. I need you to let me change you and bring you to a higher level in me." At that moment, God revealed to me everything that I needed to do to get my blessings released from heaven - I literally shouted to the Most High God! When you know what you need to do, that there is half the battle.
I want to encourage you to stop focusing on the fact that you have asked God to bless you with something and after 5, 10 or even 20 years, it hasn't happened. It doesn't mean that God is denying your request; it means that He is waiting on you to give Him your heart, your time and your life - completely! God gets tired of us asking, asking, asking and not totally surrendering our lives to Him. We must completely give everything over to God, live according to His Word, Trust His plan and wait on His promises. "I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread" (Psalm 37:25) - God has not forgotten about us. Be satisfied with what you have.Get beyond God blessing you and worship Him for who He is. Once you have allowed God to complete the spiritual circumcision in your life, His promises will follow once He sees that you are ready to receive the blessings.!
