Prayer is powerful. Prayer changes things. Prayer gives you things you didn’t know you needed. Prayer translates your humble words into Big prayers, and this is how you get the positively unexpected. Prayer is not always from you or the people you know. The Excellent Book says the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in our weakness. Those times when you don’t know what to say. Those times when you feel you’ve said it all. Those times when you don’t want to say any more because its too painful to say it again.
One of the many beauties about God that I love is that he sets us up to win. Even in those times when we can’t pray or don’t know what to say, because the Excellent Book and not only you, says we don’t know how to pray as we should, right there the Holy Spirit Himself is interceding for us. Not just with a monotone or a melodic voice but with sighs too deep for words or groans which can not be uttered as another translation says. The interceding doesn’t end with the Holy Spirit.
The same Jesus who left his heavenly abode and entered this world at the true entry level also Intercedes for us. The same one who came to die the death we should have died, not because he loves to decorate his body with nails on his hands and feet, not because he likes to be whipped and tortured, not because he likes hanging on a tree, not because he wanted to create good relatable content for the books, not because he wanted to be an influencer, but because he loves us. As if he didn’t do enough already and not that we show him he needs to, he continues to be on our side by interceding for us.
So, at any given time, regardless of who is praying for you down here on this earth …or not (including yourself) you always have a Divine Heavenly squad that is praying and interceding for you. That is special and comforting on any given day but especially when you are not seeing things happening when you really want them to happen. The truth is sometimes you are not seeing the testimony you are looking for. All you see is test after test after test. When does it end? This is why I’ve started with the end in the beginning of this piece because we need to remember this. It is our lifeline, to know that God himself, is on our side not just in helping us but even praying for us! Hallelujah!
Feelings can be discouraging and such liars that we don’t see that truth I’ve started with. All you see is one closed door after the next and I mean this literally. Email after email its rejection. You are trying and putting so much effort that has the direct opposite effect. No fruit, definitely no harvest, not even a weed to signal you to say there’s something going on under the soil. What I am saying is sometimes the testimony is not there. Sometimes in the areas you urgently want miracles to happen, it feels like a dessert, it sounds like the dial tone of an incorrect number, it smells and tastes like nothing. How does nothing smell? Nothing.
Sometimes there’s no testimony. Your situation is not speaking anything, but your body is the opposite. The tears, the headache, the sleeplessness, the ruminating, the frustration, the anger, the confusion, the restlessness, the numbness, the despondency, the involuntary isolation because part of the syllabus of your situation sets you up this way. All this is because sometimes there’s no testimony. I know at least one person who enjoys this, not your haters or enemies, your Biggest hater, the father of lies.
He loves you in this place because he knows you are probably more open to him and his devices at this stage. He is like that guy/girl who has been lurking around you, pretending to be a listening friend as you have your relationship issues. What they are not telling you is once the old is out, they are jumping in to take over. The thing with the devil is that when he takes over, meaning he’s stolen you already, his intention is to kill and destroy you. He will do that by any means necessary because he is not playing!
I see why the Excellent Book says praise God at all times. You can’t fight the devil. What you can do is resist him and he will flee. How do you resist him? Pray. “I can’t, I’ve said all I can” That’s ok because now we understand not One but Two of the God head are interceding for you so let them do what they need to do. Does that mean you don’t do anything? If you do nothing you will be putting yourself in a place to conjoin with the devil and his devices, some you know and clearly recognise, most you don’t. This is how he gets us.
What devices? “Just send that text, show them you can’t be messed with”, “just go and drink and be happy, YOLO”, “just smoke/snort it, it will relax you, you will feel irie” “God has let you down so why should you go to church, with all those heathens anyway, why should you even pray?” “Just do it! No one will find out!” Then when he sees you resist more, he brings the bigger guns in or around you. Terminal illness, illness that dumbfounds science, the boss who hates you and fires you, toxic relationships in every corner, an unhealthy lifestyle that hinders your quality of life and most of all purpose in life, trauma, death because he is not playing! He wants to kill you in any multiple way possible and he enjoys every minute of it.
So, the praying you can’t because sometimes there’s no testimony, but it’s covered in that we have intercessors praying for us. Yes, it’s true the testimony isn’t there, but is there another testimony from another time, from another area? Any little testimony? I am privileged to be on the 4th floor of life and once I get myself out my feelings that the things I really want to work are not working, I can see so many other testimonies. So, when I say there’s no testimony, the lie detector determined that was a lie! Right there I know who has been whispering in my ear because somehow unintentionally or intentionally I’ve given him space to do that.
Now the tears of “sometimes there’s no testimony” convert to tears of remorse because YO! God has done a lot in my many revolutions around the sun, this year and this week! And those are just the ones I know about! There are many plenty I don’t know about! The devil is now putting on his shoes, calling his team to round up, they need to go somewhere else. Apparently, there is nothing to see and do here. “Guys, she’s even put Kiswahili gospel songs and is singing like she’s in the club. Speaking of the club, lets go raid the club.” His advocate asks “Boss, will we be back?” The devil answers “off course! The testimony she wants hasn’t happened. I keep telling her God has no timing and he won’t do it. She is not listening today, but we will try again.” His advocate asks “when?” “Tomorrow!” They all burst out laughing and head off to the club.
What he doesn’t know and doesn’t seem to get in his skull, of which I don’t know if he has one, is that he is not fighting me. He is fighting with the one who beat him the first time in heaven, beat him the Nth time on the Cross and the one who will beat him for the last time and send him packing in the lake of fire and sulphur. He can come tomorrow but through God’s Grace & Help, I will continue to believe and say even when it LOOKS like there is no testimony, God is Good, God is Great, God is the ultimate Best because the truth is there is no testimony…YET!
Related verses
Romans 8:26-27
Psalm 4:1
Psalm 39:12
Job 22:27
Proverbs 15:29
Isaiah 41:10
Romans 8:34
Matthew 1:23
Isaiah 53:5-7
John 3:16
John 8:44
1 Peter 5:8
Mark 13:22
James 4:7
Philippians 4:4-7
Psalm 103:8
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