Hey Fam:)
So as most of you guys know I'm home in Oklahoma for a season and I've said in my past few posts i feel the Lord has me in a season of focused prayer and just friendship with Him. well the past week has been a week full of revelation and growth but also a week of wrestling and just pressing in. This morning i woke up knowing i needed to share a story and i feel its one that has been carrying me through this season of prayer but will also carry me though my life of prayer and standing before Him in intercession and relationship. It just shows who He is and its just crazy and idk i hope it encourages you like it has me.
This story takes place at IHOPKC right before i left for my trip to Mozambique Africa this past fall. I was visiting my brothers and sisters that i had ran with for the two year prior that were also about to journey to different nations with the ACTS school at ihop. While i was in kc that week i stayed at a families house while they were on a ministry trip. When i arrived i found out there was a lady from Nigeria staying in the room next to me. I was like " oh that's fun that shes from Africa and I'm going to Africa." Then i find out her name is Blessing. Then I'm really freaking out because that's just like Jesus to do that in a season when I'm in need of crazy breakthrough for my trip to Africa. Any who so i go on with the week hanging out with my friends and never once see this lady named Blessing. I'm like where is she.
One night my friends do a night watch because we all needed fiances for our trips overseas. I decided the Lord wanted me to go back to the house instead of do the night watch with them. i walk in the house down the stairs and crawl into bead. About five minutes later i here stomping upstairs and I'm thinking " what in the world?" so i go upstairs and its Blessing, whom Ive never met btw. I introduce myself and she says " The Lord woke me up to pray, He wants to do something tonight." So i said " Amen" and walked back downstairs. Then the Lord said " Go back up and ask her to pray for you and your friends." I hesitated but then i did. And as soon as i walk up and asked she says " Does He who created the eye not see and does He who created the ear not hear?" ( psalm 94)
She laid hands on me and began to ask God for breakthrough for our trips and i started weeping and i knew that God was hearing every word. The next day i got a phone call from a man i had met on one of our ministry trips in Dallas who paid the rest of my trip costs and that night i got handed $6000 to pay for 2 of my friends trips. Praise The Lord He heard and responded ( 1john 5:14)
" And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according ti His will HE HEARS US. And if we KNOW He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him. "
I didnt share this as a provisional testimony tho it is one and praise God but i felt like so often we stand before the Lord without a revelation that He actually hears us and actually knows us and wants to respond. Hes not far off and He knows us. Even little ol' me in little Cushing Oklahoma working at a little country gas station with all the little old guys drinking thier coffee telling me stories about farming and stuff all day. He sees me and hears me and knows me. Its real and i stand with the highest calling on the planet. Im a daughter, an image barrer and HE HEARS ME!!! Anwho i just felt we needed revelation today:) love you guys
Dreaming the Dreams of God
Hayli Dover
