Romans 8:28  “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

• DAILY READING Galatians 4:21-31; Lamentations 3-4; Psalm 146

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during 1972 to 1974. It started on June 17, 1972  when five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.  During investigations, an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration were uncovered. Those activities included such dirty tricks as bugging the offices of political opponent and multiple abuses of power. When President Richard Nixon became implicated, members of his administration subsequently attempted to cover up his involvement. This cover up, led to the commencement of an impeachment process against President Nixon and his eventual resignation from office. The Watergate operation and the intrigue surrounding it led to the criminal indictments and convictions of most of Nixon’s closest aides. Among those found guilty was Mr. Colson. Colson was Nixon’s top aide and ‘hatchet man’who on June 21, 1974 was sentenced to prison and fined $5,000. However in the heat of these problems Colson began to seek the face of God. As a result he became born again. Nevertheless he still went to prison and served seven months in Alabama’s Maxwell Prison. But while serving in prison, he began to sense that God had put him in prison for a purpose. At his release he announced that he would devote the rest of his life to serving God. In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which delivers the message of redemption to thousands of prison inmates and their families. In 1983, he established Justice Fellowship, which is America’s largest religion-based criminal justice reform group. In 1993, he won the $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and by  the end of the 1990s, Mr. Colson had become a leading voice in the evangelical political movement, with books and a syndicated radio broadcast.

What had looked like the end of Colson was turned around by God to become a new beginning for him. Indeed there is no situation so grave or hopeless that God cannot turn it around.  When God took Ezekiel to a valley of dry bones, the bones were dead and very dry. Yet God asked Ezekiel to prophesy.  And when Ezekiel prophesied over the dry bones something began to happen. Ezekiel 37:7 says ‘So I prophesied as I was commanded:  and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.’

The noise and shaking began when Ezekiel began to prophesy. Before then, there was no movement, there was only stagnancy and deadness. It was very quiet in that valley, just like it is often said ‘as quiet as a graveyard’. But when Ezekiel began to prophesy, things began to happen, there was sudden movement and the bones began to come alive.

Indeed there is no situation impossible to God. There is no condition He cannot turn around for us, when we pay the price of prayer. This is why you can’t afford to keep quiet. You are the prophet over your life. And what you speak is what you see. Things begin to happen when you begin to speak. A closed mouth, it is often said is indeed a closed destiny, but when we open wide our mouth God will fill it with good things. No matter how dead any situation, the moment the wind of The Spirit begins blow as we pray, things will begin to happen.

Romans 8:28 says   “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.’

There is no situation God cannot turn around when we sincerely come to Him in prayers and entreat His help.  And as we begin to speak  and make bold declarations over our situations things will surely begin to turn around positively in our favour in Jesus Name.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for granting me the grace to persevere in  the place of prayers. I know that even now You are positively changing my story and causing all things to work out together for my good in Jesus Name.

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