From experience, we know of a truth that God answers prayers. It is also common knowledge among those who walk with God that on several occasions, despite consistent prayers, God may take His time before intervening in a given situation. In fact in some cases, He may allow the situation to deteriorate to it extreme limits before He steps in. This was the experience of Mary and Martha, sister to Lazarus. Why would God wait until you are completely helpless before he turns things around?
It could be because He does not want you to tamper with what He is about to do. When a doctor wants to perform an operation, he puts his patient to sleep. When God was about to form Eve out of Adam. He put him into a deep sleep. Do you know that God still likes to do some great things without any contribution or interference from us?
Sometimes, God may allow us to get to a point of helplessness before He moves in to begin His work. He wants you to be absolutely surrendered to Him so that when He begins to do what He wants to do, you will not consider your own ideas. If you are ever so self-willed, you may need to visit the bus stop of helplessness repeatedly, but if you are completely yielded to Him, this may not occur too often in your life.
How submissive are you to God? Similarly, God may take His time before coming to your aid because it is in those extreme moments that prayers are said from the depth of the soul. When you are totally helpless, you will pray from your heart and not from your head.
When the woman whose daughter was grievously tormented of the devil came to Jesus asking for help, the Lord ignored her, and the disciples asked that she be send away because she was too noisy. When the woman simply said, you haven’t heard any noise yet. Whether you like it or not, I am not leaving here without my miracle.
Then the Lord said to her, I cannot give the children’s bread to dogs. She said Fine, I agree I am a dog, but this dog is going to get her miracle today. Since she had no alternative, she knew she had reached her last bus stop, and she refused to give up. People who are totally helpless pray a different kind of prayer compared to those who have alternatives.
Have you reached your final bus stop? Make JESUS CHRIST YOUR LAST HOPE. Whatever your needs may be today, Trust His timing and God will open doors no man can shut & answer your prayer soon, In Jesus Name, Amen!!
