Psalm 30:5 – ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.’

DAILY READING – • Acts 13:1-25; Joshua 18-19; Job 29

Recently, the Christian Broadcasting Network [CBN] featured the story of an amazing miracle that came as an answer to prayer. In September 2012, 38-year-old Marjorie was told by her doctors that she needed surgery to remove cancer in parts of her right lung. This devastating news made Marjorie and her husband to immediately resort to prayers. However, to their dismay, it was further discovered that she had bone cancer, a rare and aggressive type for which there was no treatment protocol. The oncologist’s best guess was high doses of radiation followed by intense chemo. The treatment was so intense the doctors warned that she might not survive it. At that point Marjorie almost gave up hope, believing her life was over. However, though her chances of survival were slim, she made the choice to fight the fight of faith. She held on to God’s Word and continued to pray for a miracle. While on admission at the hospital, Marjorie kept praying, listening to scriptures, and doing everything she could to stay encouraged.
When the daily radiation regimen started, it made her grow weaker every day. And after one round of chemo, Marjorie had a bad reaction that rendered her unconscious, and nearly comatose. However, at that point Marjorie had a divine visitation. A zap of energy went through her body, like electricity. Knowing that God had divinely healed her, she sat up in bed and began to declare that she was healed.
Against the doctor’s advice, Marjorie and her husband decided to stop treatment. Despite the oncologist’s warning that she would be dead within six months, the couple went home, holding on to their faith. Three months later, Marjorie went for her first cancer check-up and it came up negative. And every test she has done ever since has been negative. Years later, she has remained cancer-free, and today Marjorie goes about sharing on the power of prayer and how God can heal.
Psalm 30:5 says, ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.’
Prayer sometimes can be likened to a stonecutter hammering at a rock. He may hit that rock a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it, but as he persists without giving up, suddenly one blow will split the rock in two. Of course, it was not the last blow that did it, but the accumulation of all the blows. Persistence indeed breaks down resistance. We must learn to persist in the place of prayer.
When Marjorie initially began to pray and her condition only seemed to worsen, she could have given up and accepted the doctor’s verdict. But she pressed on until her answer came.
Perhaps you too have been praying about a situation that seems not to be getting better, but despite the weeping that has endured, surely your Joy is coming. No night can be so dark as to stop the morning from breaking forth. Though it may have looked as if nothing is happening, understand that God is indeed at work. Keep hitting at that situation in your prayer closet; an answer is coming. When Daniel prayed for 21 days, what he did not know was that from the first day he began to pray, an angel was dispatched on his behalf. Likewise, the moment you began to pray, angelic activities were activated. Though you may not see it yet, a lot has been happening spiritually. The ground may be still, but the earth is rotating.
God is indeed working behind the scenes. His ears are open to the cry of the righteous. Secure His attention by praying according to His will. Prayers based on what is written in God’s Word will receive Heaven’s priority treatment.
And as you persist in prayers, what is written will begin to control what is happening. No matter how dark your night, it will surely break forth into your morning. Weeping may have endured, but now your joy is coming. You will not be defeated; you will not be overcome.Your strength will be renewed. You shall mount up with wings as eagles and surely ride upon your high places.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for Your continual faithfulness and Your Word that never fails. I know You have heard my prayers and my answers are on the way. And no matter how things may appear, I know that You are indeed working it all out for my good, in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE
God’s promises in Christ in your life may appear delayed, but never forget that delays are not denials. -WORDBITE 222.