Don't Expect the Ordinary

UV 3682/10000 Don’t Expect the Ordinary to Happen Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you ( and even show you) great and mighty things, ( things which have been confined and hidden), which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish. Jeremiah 33 v 3 This is one of the most fantastic promises the Lord God has given to mankind. The promise is based on an unbroken covenant or agreement with man- a promise as likely to be broken as day and night not happening as a diurnal pattern set in motion at the beginning of time. The Lord is revealing that the pattern of His relating and replying to man is as certain as the day-night pattern, the earth’s rotation on its axis, the sun rise and sun set. He who is sovereign and absolute in power has subjected Himself to conform to a pattern for the sake of mankind. We only need to call to the Lord and He will answer us with the certitude of day dawning or dusk settling in with sun set. He has promises to reveal things we do not comprehend, discern or know, things that we cannot otherwise know or understand. The implication of this uni-verse is that ultimate wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discernment can only come from the Lord. It will not come automatically but needs to be triggered by our asking or speaking or communicating or relating to the Lord in faith. He not only speaks to us to reveal these hidden aspects, these secret aspects of our lives but He shows us or manifests it to us in wonders, miracles, healings, deliverances, changes in circumstances, breakthroughs, opportunities. The parallel truth is expressed in I Corinthians 2 v 9: “What eye has not seen nor ear heard nor entered the imagination of man is what the Lord has prepared for them that love Him.” The amplified Bible expands “love Him” as “ who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and how gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed.” If we put the truths of the above uni-verse with the parallel verse of I Corinthians 2 v 9, it is not enough to pray or present a wish list to the Lord but our prayer should be backed by child-like faith, servant-like obedience, devotee-like adoration, lover-like commitment and overflowing, ever flowing gratitude. When our lives are marked by such a response to the divine experience and encounter, miracles, counsel, comfort, revelations, gifts and grace in abundance is in store for us and not only in store but the floodgates of supernatural blessing are opened in our lives. We simply cannot envisage what the Lord will say or do in us and for us. We cannot imagine or predict what He is going to reveal and manifest in our lives. We cannot anticipate how He is going to use us, bless us and make us a blessing. We cannot expect the ordinary to happen in our lives.