Have
you ever felt like things are working as opposed to your prayers? Like God is
actually answering you in a way you didn’t want? Be it financially, spiritually
or even things to do with how you relate with people? Well, I have! In all
those areas, but today I will deal with relationships. Many are the times I have prayed people away.
Oh don’t give me that look! I am being real here. You know the prayers that go
something like;
“Dear
God, if so and so are not meant to be part of my life or will make me not
fulfill my purpose or make me stagnate, please get ‘em out of my life in Jesus
Name. As far as the east is from the west, just remove them. And if there were
any feelings, Lord you give us the feelings so please remove them as well. Thank You Lord for doing it. Amen!”
Some go as if they’ve been blown by the East
wind and that’s it. You just don’t hear from them and life moves on like they
never existed! This is the point I thank God and I get so excited because now
there will be no time wasting, no delays and stagnation in regards to what I
was called to do.
Then
there are those who like an irritating flu, take time to go. They will still be
part of you but then with time, the connection breaks and you only remember
them once in a while. True, everyone has a role in your life but then, some
people are not meant to go the whole nine yards with you. So when their role in
your life ends, you adjust to the new casts, just like seasons do come and go.
Funny
that there are some whom we believe are meant to be part of us so we never pray
them away, but situations do push them away! You know the ones you are sure
they’ll always be there for you, and to you they are the true definition of a friend, only for storms to come and they go with the storm? Such is life and
God always finds a way to remove them from the next episodes of your life.
I
am not done yet because this last lot is what makes me look to the heavens and
ask God “Really God? Really?” You see, these are the ones you’ve been with for
some time but it reaches a point and you feel like you’re the only one in the
friendship, so you pull away and combine that with the prayer I mentioned
earlier. You put a smile on your face knowing Daddy in Heaven has answered,
only for Him to do something that will require you to connect with the said person! Like
Jonah, you try get an excuse to run away; you remind God of the many vessels He
has, so He can choose from the rest to pass the message; You tell yourself that it’s not pride but
it’s about your destiny and God should understand! But No! 1Sam 15:22 rings in your head that Obedience
is better than sacrifice! You do it and after you’re done, deep down you feel like God is asking you whether it has changed or taken anything away from you for simply obeying!
God
made me understand this scenario using the story of Elijah! See, Elijah was a
mighty prophet who could command the skies to hold and release rain and they
oblige; he called fire from heaven, raised the dead but the day Jezebel
attacked, Elijah asked God to kill him! God sent angels instead! You see, sometimes our prayers are not answered because they are not in the will of God!
The rain and fire were in the will of God, but death wasn’t! We all know Elijah
never tasted death in as much as he prayed for it. God had prepared an express chariot to heaven for him. That was God’s will for Elijah! So to
relate my context of praying people away; Some will go because that was God’s
will for your life, and the last lot, no matter how hard you pray them away yet
it is God’s will to have them in your life for a reason best known to Him, you
will be praying amiss and they will remain!
Child
of God, will you obey and allow God’s will, or will you “fight” with His will because of what you believe is best for
you? Let’s choose to rest in Him and allow His will to prevail because after
all, we can only be safe in Him. Yes, rest and let everything take its course
according to His will.
Shalom
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