The life of a promise is Yes and Amen!

When God opens your eyes with a vision or a dream, He also awakens the hope within! This new insights brings excitement that appears so real, it lingers in your thoughts like the smell of Thanksgiving dinner invading your nostrils as it roams through every room of the house! Some desires find themselves on the back shelf of our thought process. Entertaining those desires can become emotionally consuming when we come short of seizing them.

The possibilities of what your life will become causes you to see life differently! Your hope is through the roof and your faith is rising to the occasion! You whisper to God..., “Is this my season for change?” Your outlook on life is instantly perceived with new hope! Whether it be for a new home, a potential spouse or long awaited baby, this awakening has charged your faith within! Have you ever waited for something for so long that it became more of a weight than the excitement it initially brought? The denial and constant rejection becomes unbearable. The dream you saw is still so real and tangible within your soul..., but its easier to suppress it than to allow it to dance in your heart another day.

Recently, I was reading a passage in the bible (II King 4: 8-37) about a Shunamite woman that was compelled to provide a place for Prophet Elisha to dine and lodge when he passed through her city. She pleaded with her husband to provide a permanent lodging place within their home for the prophet. Her husband agreed, and Elisha was grateful for her hospitality. The prophets servant suggested she should be blessed for her kindness. The Shunamite woman insisted she didn't need anything. Although the prophets servant informed him that she didn't have a child..., specifically a son. Immediately, Elisha told her "this time next year you will have a son!" The Shunamite woman was taken back, it's obvious having a son was something she decided to suppress or put it on the back burner of her heart. She told the prophet, "Don't lie to your maidservant!"

The Shunamite woman had a son the following year, just like the prophet said! She received her promise! The prophet awakened her faith to believe again, but as her son grew older she found herself on an unseen path. Perhaps, this is the reason why she responded to the prophet abruptly, "Don't lie to your maidservant." Her son suddenly fell ill with a headache and, as she cared for him, he died in her arms. Immediately she sought out for the prophet, after all it was him who awakened her hope to have a child. This is the part of the passage that caught my attention, the prophet arrived to see the child's lifeless body laying in the bed the woman had set aside for him. She laid him in the place where the prophetic word came forth!

Elisha went into the room. He shut the door. He was alone with the boy. He prayed to the Lord. 34 Then Elisha got on the bed. He lay down on the boy. His mouth touched the boy’s mouth. His eyes touched the boy’s eyes. And his hands touched the boy’s hands. As Elisha lay on the boy, the boy’s body grew warm. 35 Elisha turned away. He walked back and forth in the room. Then he got on the bed again. He lay down on the boy once more. The boy sneezed seven times. After that, he opened his eyes.

These scriptures made me think of my own promises that has died in my heart. The Shunamite woman's demeanor implied, "don't offer me something that can potentially hurt me later..., I didn't ask for this blessing!" She went back to the source of her promise. God revealed, we must go back to the promise giver, the author of our faith! God authors promises, dreams and hope in our hearts, although he seldom reveals the process..., those dark valley moments. Those promises and dreams comes fueled with passion, determination and desire! The chase and search for that satisfying end becomes embedded in our soul!

I thought about a dream that God gave me. I realized my promise had died, it was no longer alive in my heart. Hope was no longer pulsating with life within me, I set my hope aside and suppressed it. Unfulfilled promises leaves our heart longing..., creating deep craters within. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

God is the author and finisher of our faith, even when the process appears drastically delayed. I believe we have all struggled with delay or dark valley moments that stands between the promises God has given us. God will give you the desires of your heart even when you bury that desire within. The Shunamite woman received what was already in her heart, it was simply buried within. Take your promises back to the author and petition him to finish what he started! For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV

Prayer Confessions:

Father you have declared that you are the Author and Finisher of my faith. What you have begun, you will complete in me! God resuscitate the promise that has died within me, just as the prophet did, let your mouth touch my mouth, let your hands press upon my hands, let your eyes become one with my eyes and join your body to my body until life, hope and faith is resurrected in me again! God breathe life into every delayed promise, awaken the promise that You gave me! Awaken your Yes and Amen until desire is fulfilled, cause the tree of life to arise within me! God, all of the promises that you have embedded in my soul, in You..., they are Yes! In You..., it is Amen and in Me..., If you said it, I Believe It! Awaken every dormant desire until Yes and Amen is fulfilled in Jesus name!

~ My Passion Confessions

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