Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your path.
Lately I have been praying to God for a closer walk with him, the Holy spirit, building my faith and how there should always be a prompt on even the little things in life that seem not to matter, like what to wear out, do this, do that, don’t say this, say that…I really wanted God to get that intimate and personal with me that is because I have had experiences like that. In my final year, I had already picked out what to wear and I felt a prompt to wear a trouser suit and everyone I passed that day gave compliments on what I wore… Yes God cares and is ready to be involved in even the little things, just the way even though your dad is very busy, if you ask him what you should wear, he would most likely choose one for you, well he may just tell you anyone is good on you, to get off the hook. loll! I have seriously been waiting in anticipation for God to answer this my prayer, when MrPossible told me (in bass voice)” babe please can you wake me up by 5am, it is very important” his phone was bad that week and was with the repairer. You see, since we got married, I have been his personal alarm clock because I am not a deep sleeper, any little sound can get me up and I pride myself in that so anytime he wants me to wake him up at a particular time, I set the alarm and get up at the first buzz to wake him up and I have never failed but this time, he was so serious about this wake up and emphasized/ explained what it meant to get up early and to that I said ‘don’t worry, I will wake you up’ That night I slept late as usual because at night is when I write and do some ‘me things’, just as I was about to set my alarm clock, the Holy spirit just whispered to me, “tell me when you want to get up and I would wake you up” say what???!!!!! hehehe…the first response that came to my mind was, ‘nah, not today’ then immediately, I remembered my prayers about trusting the Holy spirit and God…Haba! This is a set up nah, MrPossible has emphasised how important this wake up was to him, now I should believe what my “mind/something” is telling me, what will I tell MrPossible tomorrow, that “something” told me not to set my alarm clock…hehehehe( don’t we always do that, we get a prompt in our spirit and for the fear not to sound too spiritual or sometimes because we don’t know what it is or what to tag it, we call it “something” or “instinct”, we go like, “so as I was crossing the road, then all of a sudden, SOMETHING told me to look left”… You need to see me negotiating with the Holy Spirit, ‘Please not today, you know what MrPossible wants, Is not like I don’t trust in you oh, I just don’t want to… you understand’ and I just felt him say “but you want to learn to trust me with the little details”…After the back and forth WE sorry I came to a compromise and said ‘Okay, I will set the alarm for five but wake me up at 4:45′ I did so and slept off, I cannot tell you how guilty I felt but that was my choice. 4:46 I woke up, i think my clock was fast by one minute because God is always on time and by 5 am, I woke MrPossible up and this was what hit me… We ask God for so many things, but are we ready to totally trust him with it? I actually chose to trust an alarm clock made by man than God who actually sets the time and controls the universe, God who can stop my alarm and make the day standstill, who controls life and everything that breathes…God is willing to answer our prayers, sometimes we pray to him but deep down we are not willing to let go of that problem and allow him fix it, we still look for ways to try fix it ourselves. He is willing to work with us but are we willing to totally let go and trust him? Think about it? Have a wonderful day guys and if you have any inspirational story to share on Sundays, please send to bride2mom@gmail.com. Thanks.Obee’s Sundays Inspiration – The alarm clock.
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Yes o! If u put your faith in God absolutely he does not fail,the problem with man is himself-unbelief.when we ask God for something and he grants our request,”mr unbelief”comes around the corner to confuse us that what we ask for is not possible.meanwhile,there’s nothing that is impossible with our jehovah overdo”we need to reorientate our mind to believe all things are possible to them that believe in his word.I have had similar experience with asking the holy spirit to wake me up at odd times inthe night whenever I want to meditate or have a quiet personal relationship with God and he has never failed me,on the dot,he keeps me awake.our God is a God of time and season and may his name be praised for ever
Thanks Obee for sharing. It’s amazing how we ask God for something and we are reluctant to give Him a chance to show Himself strong but He always comes through for us whenever we trust Him. I have come to realise that God doesn’t work in logical ways but in mysterious ways.
You are so right about ‘something told me’. I am one very guilty fellow but I am taking baby steps to change that. Lol.
Yes Tamie, I am also guilty of “something told me” o, Ill be like ‘what if it is me telling myself’ loll. Its not easy to say the holyspirit o, I am even learning to work on saying it.
Very powerful short story! It’s great that you trusted that inner voice to wake you up and of course it did wake you up on time. It’s hard to take a leap of faith when things don’t go our way but we need to do it from time to time. If we do, we will usually feel the love of God shining upon us and realize we had nothing to be afraid of in the first place.