For the past few days there was a cricket in my room. I searched everywhere for it, but to no avail. So for the last few days there was a almost deafening chirp ringing through my ears, almost reverberating through my skull. That sounds a little bit dramatic I know, but it is really bad.
This did get me thinking though about how I sometimes just give up without any real reason. There is this cricket, alone, somewhere in a dark crevice of my room, and this thing just doesn’t quit!
Is this not how I am supposed to approach God as well? In a corner and alone I should praise more than ever, I should pray more than ever. Relentless and without waiver, just lean on God. If I do this long enough, and with enough conviction, the entire spirit realm starts to move!
God hears this and responds.
Just as a point of reference, this cricket was alone in my room for 3 days… As of this morning, I now have 2 crickets in my room! So this single cricket alone with so much persistence just kept on going for 3 days straight, probably with no response, no idea if what it was doing is effective, or even helping in the slightest, it finally worked and it is no longer alone.
I wonder what will happen in my own life if I raise my voice to God for 3 days straight? What effect will this have, how will it change me, how will God respond? What if i do this for 3 months or 3 years?
Let’s leave this devotion with these scriptures in mind…
1 John 5:15
And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
Psalms 34:17
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.