Her problems had persisted for a long while and did not seem to have a promising end, it was like being in between the rock and the hard place where no one has bothered to look at how she could be helped, even if they plan to, she perceived that the room is too tight for two, her issue seems peculiar. To her no one seems to understand, no one seems to care, it’s too distressing, very depressing, she is wasting away but yet she could not explained it away. She has explored all available options and considered many alternatives but she is yet to locate the divine key for her way out of her issues and her trouble. She has been written off by many, who considered her case hopeless and thought her wound could not be healed, her flow of blood cannot end, her bondage seems to be getting stronger every day for her captors refuse to let her go. Luke 8:43-48.
Her feet were chained, and her hands were not free either, she is confined in herself by herself, in a place that she least expected, her destiny seems to have lost opportunity for expression, she saw the doors opened but the chains prevented her journeying through the opened door. Why? She may have been limited by lack of skill, no experience, no funds, family, friends, none can stand for her and none could recommend her. Acts 16: 20-26
It looks like being in a dark place, going through the darkest season and the darkest night where she has lost the melodious song, but had only saturated her garment with tears that she did not plan to shed but that was flowing out of her painful past, her pain of the moment and no visibility of the future. Indeed the darkness was thick for she reckoned that there is unlikely to be a dawning of a new day, she looks at herself and around her only to conclude, it’s a wasting place, a dangerous place, nothing seems to work and she has no idea of how to make it work for her affliction seems to be many, her trial seems to be plenty, but little did she know that the darkness may have been thick but it has an expiry date, for whatsoever has a beginning surely must have an end. Even when weeping seems to have continued throughout the darkness of the night, her joy of a new day is about to burst forth. Psa 34-17-19, Psa 126:1-3, Psa 30:5
Beloved, if this is you, I have good news for you today, stop the complaining, moaning and groaning, release yourself from trying to reason it out but rejoice in the Lord your God always; engaging the power of prayer and praise to usher in the ‘God of suddenly’ in to your darkest night and see it converted to a noon day as He gives you joy in the morning, destroy the yokes, break the chains and bring you out of every prison, heal your wounds and terminate all your affliction. You can praise your way out of the sudden oppression, sudden afflictions, sudden troubles and trials, sudden pain and problems, sudden lack and want, hopelessness and toiling, out of every prison, limitation and cages of life, into the suddenly of your God given liberty and wholeness in Christ Jesus. “For the Lord whom you seek in Zion, will suddenly come into His temple, the messenger of the covenant you desire to see, He is coming, says the LORD of Host” Psa 22:3, Mal 3:1
Consider this:
- For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, to do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work. [Isa: 28:21]
- The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers [Jer 33:19-21]
- See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [Eph 5:15-19 KJV]
- But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. [Psa 22:3 KJV]
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened. [Acts 16:25-26]
