I'm on a fast for the last 3 to 4 weeks.God gave me an urge to come to Him with Fasting. As we are praying and exploring His word in a period of fasting, I too kept Praying to the Lord while reading His word every moment available. Today God did an awesome thing. He revealed an amazing secret to me, which prompted me to post. God spoke to me through Luke chapter 1 verse 13. I was actually reading through Luke 1:1-13. It speaks about Zechariah, and his wife Elizabeth, then the appointment of Zechariah to go into the Temple to burn incense. Then the word says that while he was performing is duties an Angel appear. Then the Angel says thus in 1:13: But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John (KJV)......Ok Ok this is that verse about God choosing Elizabeth to bear John the Baptist. But what God revealed to me is this. In this verse the Angel says that God has heard Zechariah's prayers. AND they are answered. HOW? by choosing Elizabeth his wife to bear a boy who must be called John. Now God has been listening to his prayers, and we can easily understand that Zechariah would have been praying to God about their worry of not having children. As Zechariah and Elizabeth would have been married for sometime, Zechariah surely would have been asking God for children for many many years. When he came to this encounter with the Angel, he was pretty old. Then the Angel gives him God's message, that God has really answered his prayers, but.......do you think Zechariah wanted John, can you say that Zechariah even asked God for a child during that time. I don't think so, may be you might think, but it is hard for me to think that an old man would do that. As I've stopped at verse 13, and if you keep reading further you will find that Zechariah doubted, and he wanted to be sure.
Then the Angel says, he is Gabriel, and he stands in the presence of God, and as Zechariah did not believe he will be silent. But that part was read by me only when I started writing this post. At verse 13, what God made me understand is that my prayers will be heard by Him. But when He answers, it will be according to His plan and time. Zechariah did not ask for a name for the Child, but the Angle told him the Name. Zechariah did not plan to make John a jungle man, eating locusts, and drinking wild honey. But God had a plan for the Child. Zechariah would have prayed before he was old, when he thought they wanted a Child, may be when they were young, and newly married, may be when their friends and neighbors who had married after them had children, may be when those children were getting older, or may be when those children got older and married. Thereafter do you think He would have been praying to God? I mean when Zechariah's friends became Grandfathers, do you think He would have prayed? No way. But do you know God answers even our Old prayers.
This is what God did to me, when I was meditating. He took me back to my childhood, and made me think all the prayers I said in the years upto now, and how they were answered. I realized that all those were answered, and when they were answered it had not been the way I wanted, but ALL THOSE ANSWERS HAD BEEN TO BRING GLORY TO GOD, TO BRING HONOUR TO HIM, AND ACCORDING TO FULFILL HIS PLAN FOR ME, FOR MY FAMILY, AND TO HIS OVERALL CAUSE. Also those answers were more than I had asked at the time. God revealed to me with proof from the His Word, and my past encounters that even the prayers I'm saying today will be answered. When they are answered.... God's glory will prevail. That's for sure. Thank you Jesus for your wonderfulness, and your Grace is immeasurable. Praise God. Amen.
