The Joy When a Miracle Occurs

A miracle occurred the other day,

I woke in tears but decided to pray,

Then my Lord came to me,

To give me hope and set me free.

I said to my Lord, “Thanks for that,”

For, in joy, there I sat,

A lovely revelation over me swept,

The bliss of God’s presence there I kept.

Instantly I arose from depression’s sleep,

A horrendous mindset that had taken me deep,

As I ascended to realise my joy,

I knew it was God’s design for me now to deploy.

A revived spirit embodied my life,

A spirit that now enables me to endure much strife,

From that time on I began to see,

What is destined always to set the faithful free.

This Miracle of Revelation

We ought never to dismiss the power of God to raise us from our deepest lament.

It is most often the person who has never experienced such grace who dispels such miracles, but those who have experienced such miraculous grace attest to a power beyond life itself. This miracle of revelation—God making himself known through love, joy, and peace—is tantamount to the supernatural. This miracle of revelation is what we pray for, but we hardly conceive just how wonderful it actually is.

When we are at our depths we vacillate between desperate attempts at hope and moments of giving up. There is very little joy in between.

But when we go to God in faith enough to pray, we open up our chances to be delivered by a miracle. And the longer our prayers endure, the more faith we show, and the more our spirituality bears resilience. A resilient faith is more likely to be rewarded through the miracle of revelation—God coming in and lifting us out of our mental, emotional, and spiritual quagmire.

Getting Through Difficulty – It’s About Faith

Getting through any difficulty is about faith, and we operationalise our faith through prayer. This is an active and vocalised pattern of thinking and speaking to our Lord, and waiting upon our God by listening through his Word. We allow God to speak.

Taking our difficulties into our own hands via prayer is about relying on God.

God can deliver us out of the harshness of our difficulties by transforming our perspective. We ask and God gives, and he gives generously (James 1:5).

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A miracle occurred the other day,

I woke in tears but decided to pray,

Then my Lord came to me,

To give me hope and set me free.

... that pretty much sums it up.

© 2012 S. J. Wickham.