What do you do when time has passed and a dream has died? What if something else, something unprecedented… is about to happen?
She had never been this desperate. Life meant nothing anymore without this dream fulfilled. She wept in anguish, bowed down to the earth with a raw soul that reached singularly toward Heaven.
How could it be? Had God really closed the womb of Hannah, creating this desperation? For years, Hannah had longed for a son. In her deep places she declared “I have poured out my soul before the Lord,” (I Sam 1:15) and she promised to “lend him to the Lord” for all of his life. What if a deeper plan was being released?
And so the poignant cry again went up to Heaven, “I long for a son…!” But on this day, something new happened. A cry also came down from Heaven, ” I long for a prophet!” Like labor contractions in the unseen realm, Hannah’s cries continued to meet with God’s cries, “I want a prophet!” in increasing frequency and intensity. in the spirit realm they met. A space was created, sown by holy desperation, where the dream of God converged with the dream of Hannah. A supernatural conception was taking place. Soon, a physical one would. Even the temple priest realized something had happened. “Go in peace and the God of Israel grant your petition…” (I Sam 1:17.)
“So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son and called his name Samuel “because I have asked for him from the Lord.” (v 20.) Samuel was the prophet God’s heart had longed for. His life released God’s trajectory for Israel as he heard God’s voice and intuited His heart in the spirit.
What if your greatest, desperate longing is an intentional setup to meet supernaturally with God’s deep longing and desire for the now? What if a seeming disappointment or unfulfillment is deliberately waiting for the catalytic activation of your heart cry mixing with God’s? What if Holy Spirit has been drawing your heart to meet with God’s in a spirit space where your and his dreams meet?
Be it a personal, family, corporate or world dream, I challenge you to let your desperation launch your heart to meet with His. He says He no longer calls us servants but friends, because He wants to reveal to us what He dreams of, what He longs for, what He is doing. (John 15:15-16.)
On behalf of Heaven, I break off weariness from you. Courage is being put back into you for this specific, intentional time in which you live. Be released to let your heart respond and cry out its dream to Him anew.
Christine O’Riley