One Ordinary You with a Heart for Me Isn’t Ordinary
On a Saturday in February, something absolutely extraordinary occurred, the like of which I have never experienced before.
God thanked me.
Before you jump to any wrong conclusions, I will explain how it happened.
I am ill, as I have mentioned before, and weekends, which I used to love, are now rather fraught and tiring.
So I was tired and struggling as I was reading the word and spending time with God. He suddenly and quietly said,
“Thank you.”
I instantly assumed this was just my tired brain imagining things, so I carried on reading.
Then I heard it again.
“Thank you.”
“Um, is that really you, LORD? I ask because it sounded like You just said thank you?”
“I did.”
“Um, can I ask whatever for? You are big and You do all the things and I am tiny and I don’t do very much at all.”
“I thanked you for bothering to ask Me what I thought. For listening when I answered. For believing what I said regardless of your own opinion or intellect — and then for Praying in line with My Will.
I have told others before, but they did not do as you did.
So I AM thanking you.”
I gawped. I hadn’t been speaking aloud but I visibly gawped with my mouth open.
You see, for many generations there has been a pressing issue about which many Christians have prayed. Many have sought answers. They generally fall into four schools of thought:
Solution 1
It must happen exactly as in the Bible so that prophecy is fulfilled.
Much of the prophetic community take the Bible prophecy literally and believe this.
Solution 2
The Bible prophecy was for a time in the past. It was not fulfilled because of disobedience. It is no longer valid.
A fair modern solution must be found. Many Christians and non-Christians believe this.
Solution 3
The prophecy is not meant to be literal but is spiritual and metaphorical.
The fulfillment will be in the mind, so to speak.
Unless they are extremist, the majority of people affected by the prophecy tend to hold to this.
Solution 4
Jesus is coming soon and then none of it will matter anyway so why concern ourselves?
Some Christians hold this to be the most Scriptural solution of all.
From my childhood I have heard these arguments and wondered if there was not some other resolution, one none of us had thought of.
I occasionally prayed about it. Then suddenly, on one of those occasions, the Lord gave me an answer.
He said one word. I did not entirely understand at first. I told only one other person and I prayed about it.
I prayed for a long while.
Some time later, a prophet cursed a government because, in their eyes, that government was not holding to Solution 1.
I have always believed it is wrong to curse others.
In fact The LORD has told me, “Curse cancer, not people,” so I started crying out to God about this curse.
It just seemed so wrong for Christ’s Ambassadors to go around cursing people.
But that’s only my opinion, LORD.
You told Abraham You would withhold judgement for one righteous person. Surely there must be more than one righteous person in that government?
But if it is Your Will, let it stand and make them repent, I prayed.
He replied, “It isn’t My Will, and because of your prayers I will not curse that Government.”
Um, LORD, is that really You saying that?
“Yes, it really is Me.”
But why? The one who cursed them is a well-known prophet of good standing and I am just one small, ordinary, rather wobbly me?
“Because one ordinary you with a heart for Me, isn’t ordinary.
Because the Prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.
Because when My Friends intercede and stand in the gap, I listen.
Abraham asked, and I saved a disobedient city for one righteous man.
Moses asked, and I saved a stiff-necked, stubborn, disobedient people.
Because it is on your heart and it matters to you and I love you.
That’s why.”
He told me that the prophet had correctly seen His displeasure with events — but that their curse and their prayers in the same manner were not His ideal for this.
He said He frequently shows things to people but they do not always represent His heart well when they pray about it.
~ Iris Maud, UK.
Iris Maud, UK.
Amen! Blessings to you for so beautiful word. It’s great when prophetic people are praying in the love of the Lord and not judging. People feeling like we don’t matter and God won’t listen can get hope He is hearing us!
Thank you Eden, for so beautiful reply. I saw this also and I was also interceding. That prophet is kind of judgy but also shares images out of Daily Mail, it is the same media on trial now for abusing privacy. Iris has a different style in messages if you read back. There is one on holiness I can cry any time I read it. It is good people like you and Iris are speaking out. Blessings to you!
Dear Iris,
I am so thankful for your heart that is yielded to God, and that remains kind and gentle. I too have been deeply disturbed by the gloating and the glee with which some “prophets” here pronounce curses upon people and countries. I truly believe that God reveals in order to redeem. Therefore, when God speaks His heart concerning a people or a land, we are meant to cry out to Him for mercy and grace, not to pronounce curses with such venom.
Jeremiah wailed over Israel, hence earning the name “the weeping prophet.” Abraham, as you rightly pointed out, cried out to God that if even one righteous man could be found, the city should be spared. I believe that when God reveals things to us, our response should be to cry out for mercy.
I have seen many disturbing things here. One example was when curses were pronounced over the United Kingdom and Keir Starmer after he recognised the state of Palestine. The “prophet” proceeded to rain curses upon our country. As I read it, my spirit was deeply troubled, and I heard the Holy Spirit very clearly say, “Open your mouth and rebuke this. Cancel this and begin to pronounce blessings over the United Kingdom and the Prime Minister.” I did as the Holy Spirit led. Later, as I continued to pray, the Holy Spirit brought me to the book of Jeremiah, where God told Jeremiah that the people must pray for Babylon:
“And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace. For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.” Jeremiah 29:7–8
We are to intercede, cry out in repentance and appeal to God ‘s mercy on behalf of our nation or the land in which we dwell. NOT pronounce curses. If God told the Israelites to pray for the city that had taken them captive, how much more should we pray for our own nation, the land where we dwell and were born? It is God’s will that we pray for the wellbeing and peace of our nations. God does not desire that anyone should perish or be cursed.
I think many people make the mistake of thinking, “I feel this way, therefore God must feel this way.” But God’s ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. He is sovereign and we are here to serve His purposes and not our own.
Quoting things like the Daily Mail and parroting hateful rhetoric is not of God.
Thank you for your obedience to God. We may be in the minority here, but I believe we are in the majority with God. And don’t be discouraged by their thousands of followers. Jeremiah stood alone among many who opposed him. So did the prophet Isaiah, and many others. That in itself should be a sign that you are on the right path.
God Bless you Eden and Iris. I am learning to incline my ear and speak up. This is both encouraging and instructive.