22/10/2021
*"The Lord who hears Me"*
Text;Genesis 16:11 "And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction"
I want to share this short message to all my friends!
*That we have a God who hears us!*
May I warn you to be careful what you say when you are in pain because God hears you.
From our text, a popular story about Abraham having an illicit affair with an Egyptian woman, One of his maidservants Hagai by name!
We have heard a lot about the four characters in that short story. Abraham, Sarah, Hagai and Ishmael!
The fifth character being a Divine being who comes to meditate or rather to give consolance to Hagai the Egyptian woman.
Sometimes when we cry or when we are in pain, we don't even realize that God hears us. This Egyptian woman was not even God's inheritance by biblical standard. She is a worldly woman! She was an Egyptian woman.
Who could believe that God would hear her?
That's why I am warning you my reader, be careful what you say!
Do you know why God hates murmuring?
Because when you murmur, you make God a fool because you think He doesn't hear you.
God hears you!
God hears me!
God hears us!
I was wondering why Jesus would tell His audience that God knows what they need and still tell them to ask!
The truth is that receiving is the result or response to asking. By principle, no one should receive until they have asked.
Men do not value things they didn't ask for.
That's why Jesus said to His audience in "Matthew 7:6"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces"
He was talking about how people will treat what they didn't ask for.
If I know that God hears me, Then I don't need to worry about what I don't have, all I need to do is simply ask Him in prayers, in humility and I got to wait for him to respond.........