Wild Prayersনমুনা

UNPRECEDENTED PRAYERS BRING UNPRECEDENTED MIRACLES

We’ve all read about the first miracle of Jesus a million times. Jesus was invited with His disciples to a wedding at Cana. As a result of some miscalculation by the hosts, the wine ran out. Doesn’t this sound all too familiar? Some sudden twist, some unexpected problem and we often run into a season of acute shortages.

This twist in the wedding feast at Cana would have had a very damaging end, if not for the wild prayer of Mary. If Mary had not taken this to Jesus, the wedding would have just ended with a lot of disgruntled guests and embarrassed family members. But Mary’s wild prayer catapulted the situation, into a marriage feast wherein an unprecedented, history-making miracle happened. Here are some takeaways from Mary’s wild prayer:

• Stop being critical and take it to Jesus. We must stop analyzing the “why’s” and the “how’s” of our situation. Mary could have played the blame game, or she could have gossiped about the situations from the sidelines. Yet, she wisely just took it to Jesus.
• Wild prayers must be followed by wild obedience: Filling water in the six water jars didn’t make any sense. But, if wild prayers must be answered, God may ask us to take some wild steps. In these situations, obeying God may look wild and irrational, but it is a sure shot path to answered prayers.
• Wild prayers should be followed by Wild faith: The water in the jars had not yet been turned into wine when Jesus asked the servants to serve the wine to the Master of Ceremonies. Many times, God expects us to step out in faith, without heeding to the “what-ifs” that our minds throw at us. God can do unprecedented miracles only when we follow God with wild faith.
• The Wild Miracle: When this wild miracle manifests, nobody will know where it came from. We often only focus on how the quality of the wine served the second time was better than that which was served at first. Yet do we realize that Jesus provided about 180 gallons of wine for them? This roughly translates to 900 wine bottles. God gave them more than enough.

Are you ready to make some wild prayers today?

Reflection time:

1. List down the most trying times of your life and your predominant emotions and actions in those times.

2. Write down the areas of your life where an unprecedented move of God can catapult you to another dimension.

3. Is God asking you to make some “Bold faith moves?” If so, write them down and list out the fears that you may have to step out in faith.

Have a little chat about all that you have written down with God.