DESPERATION IS ALLOWED Thursday, September 13, 2012 Memorize: And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be  given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,  and it shall be opened unto you. Luke 11:9 Read: Luke 11:5-10 When Elisha cried to God in 2 Kings 2:14, River Jordan parted for him as soon as he smote the waters. You must  realize his cry was out of distress. He was desperate.  The Psalmist says in Psalms 120:1: In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. God attends to distress  calls and He answers the desperate. Elisha's outburst was out of desperation and he had every  reason to be desperate. Since he left his home, he never  went back. Even if he returned home, he could never return  to his farming profession because he had earlier killed  all his oxen and destroyed his farming tools. He had burnt the bridges and there was no looking back.  Besides, he was at the bank of River Jordan where he had no ship or boat. There was no bridge across the river and  he did not know how to swim. Boy! He couldn't have been  more desperate! When a man is desperate, he easily  gets God's attention. Check out erstwhile blind Bartimaeus or the paralytic  who was lowered through the roof to meet Jesus. In both cases, the Lord had to suspend what He was doing in  order to attend to them. How desperate are you?  Several millions and even billions of people pray  to God daily. One criteria the angels use in selecting who gets  attended to now, who can wait a little and who would  have to wait much longer is the level of their  desperation.  Many fail to receive attention today because their  prayers are too sophisticated and couched in Queen's  English, satisfying all laws of Grammar. At the end,  their focus is more on grafting the prayer than on God. A desperate man does not care whether his grammar is  correct or not as long as he is conversing with God.  A woman in labor does not remember whether she has a  Ph.D. or she is a bank manager. All she cares about  is to be delivered of her baby safe and sound. How desperate are you in getting your desired answer?  Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life  (John 14:6). If you can call on Him and show Him you  are making a distress call, He will make a way for you.  This season, the Lord will create a way for you to go  through.  You are coming out of that fix! Call on Him now, call  out in desperation and He will answer you. KEY POINT: According to Matthew 11:12, there are certain  spiritual blessings that may never be obtained except  through spiritual violence. How desperate are you?