Date: Saturday, 13th January, 2024
Text: Lamentation 2:19
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
About 17 years ago, I needed to make a decision with life-long consequences. At a point I was emotionally down and I met a matured Christian brother for counseling. He then advised me to seek God’s face at night. I followed his counsel, got up and prayed earnestly at night. God answered speedily, guided me and it turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.
When the Lord wanted to make a life-long decision of choosing the twelve disciples, Luke 6:12 says, “Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles.”
After Jesus prayed all night, He walked on the water, healed the multitudes, and preached. (Matthew 14:22-36).
Jacob’s persistent all-night prayer brought him a new name, a new destiny, victory and blessing (Genesis 32:22-32).
In Acts 16:25-26, Paul received a supernatural deliverance after praying in the midnight hours.
Are you faced with economic hardship, confused or in need of urgent divine intervention, the word of God says, “Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.” Lamentations 2:19.
Prophetic Nugget: May you encounter God afresh this season in Jesus name.