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Provoke Your Rainfall
Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Apr 27, 2004 (message contributor)
Summary: God knows our future, our personalities and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever to say more to use than we can deal with a moment, so be in the know so as to stay in the flow.
8. When the enemy has sucked you dry.
9. When your debt is mounting and your income is low.
10. When the Lazarus of your destiny has been embalmed and buried.
11. When yokes begin to multiply and chain problems continue to come.
12. When lodge members, occult people and evil assemblies are saying, “You better join us.”
13. When you are being encouraged to be disobedient to God because you have a problem.
14. When shedding tears have become your regular affair.
15. When the road you are traveling is becoming rougher and rougher.
16. When you notice what we call ‘finishing fever’ in your life. When spiritual fever starts as you are about to finish something.
17. When you are becoming an expert at finishing what you should not have started.
18. When you try to smile and the smile is not coming at all.
19. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black in the boxing ring of life.
HOW DO YOU PROVOKE YOUR RAINFALL?
There is nobody that God does not have a good destiny for. The Bible says, “I know the thoughts that I have towards you, they are the thoughts of good and not of evil." That is what the Bible says, meaning that God does not have terrible or bad destiny for anybody. But the rain of destiny may refuse to fall. How do you speak to the clouds today that they must rain abundance on you? How should you declare that what you have been having are showers of blessing, but now you want the rain to fall? How do you provoke your rainfall?
1. Disband worry from your life: John 14:1 says, “Let not your heart be troubled” It does not say, “Pray for God not to allow your heart to be troubled.” Worry will give you something to do but it won’t get you anywhere. It is not your friend at all. It is your enemy. It cannot be found in God’s vocabulary. If you read the Bible very well you will find that Jesus was never in a hurry. He knew what He wanted to do and He did it. Anything they said to scare Him did not work. Worry and faith are incompatible, because immediately worry runs in faith jumps out. The beginning of worry is the end of faith. We could see that Elijah was not worried at all. He was confident that that rain would fall.
I remember the story of one little girl. There was no rain in their city and the Christians decided to gather to pray that rain would fall. As they were going for the meeting, the girl said, “Daddy, let me follow you.” The daddy said she could come along. Later the girl said, “Daddy, wait I have taken my Bible but there is something I have forgotten.” And she ran inside and took an umbrella. The daddy asked her: “What are you doing with the umbrella?” She said, “Daddy, but we are going to pray that God should send rain.” The man laughed and said, “Well, it has not rained for many years." They went and before the prayer meeting got half way rain started. It was only the little girl who had an umbrella.
Worry has nowhere to go and it gets nowhere. Many years ago, when I was in England, one doctor told me a story. He said there was one patient crying every night, “Doctor, give me medicine or I will die. Give me medicine or I will die.” The patient was screaming and screaming but they had given him all the medicine that he was to take. When he continued to cry, the doctor went and got water, put it inside the injection and put it on his body then he said thank you and slept. So, it was not the sickness that wanted to kill the man, it was worry. Many die before their time because of worry. I remember the day that all the guests in one hotel have deserted the hotel. Somebody was crying in one of the rooms: “It is inside my bag." They knocked at the door of that room but the fellow did not open the door. The other guests started running out thinking that the man wanted to bring out a gun from his bag. But the man was just having a dream. He later explained that he found himself inside a house in the dream, the door was locked, he wanted to go out and was looking for his keys and was saying, “It is inside my bag.” Worry gets nobody anywhere. That is why Jesus said, “Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication, let your request be known unto God.” (Philippians 4:6). When you make your request known unto God, His peace will come.
