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Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed. When life has dealt you a hard blow and you seek justice, you go to court. And in the court of Heaven like the courts on earth you must present your witnesses in order to make a strong case before the Judge, the Ancient of Days. So that you can have a fair trial and so that the judge rules in your favor. Recently, life dealt me some hard knocks and in my outcry to God I found solace in presenting my witnesses. And I am more certain of victory now more than ever. I presented my witnesses and their testimony was a sure testimony — my journals.
On the 26th of February, I piled all my journals together and in the process flipped through some and read a few pages. I began to flip through my journals dating as far back as 2003. And my heart welled with such gratefulness. It felt like looking through old photographs and being reminded of one’s youth or childhood, of one’s innocence and brazen trust in the impossible. Something extraordinary began to happen to me and I knew I would want to share it with you. So here I am. By the morning of the 27th, during my quiet time I found myself saying to God — as I lamented about the current rumblings in my spirit — Lord, I present my witnesses!
As I read account after account and then corresponding answers, after answers that emerged in the pages that followed, accounts of God uncovering secrets, and then other accounts of God disclosing mappings of what my future holds. Fragments they seemed at the time but how those fragments now make sense in the face of my present circumstances many years after. It is impossible not to trust God for the future. My journals are footprints in the sands of my existence. And they also show me the footprint of my constant companion, YHWH. How He never left me. How He always had a plan. And how His plans never fail.
So when I pray, I present my witnesses to God; my good old journals from way back. I say to Him — LORD, remember in 2003 when I met XYZ and we started to be become friends and then You showed me in a dream her true intentions? LORD, I ask You to do same again now. Oh, remember the other time in my final year in Uni, I was confused about which way to go and You sent me answers through X, Y & Z? LORD, I ask that You send me answers now. Remember in 2007, when You gave me a scripture and a map about my the man I’ll marry and how I would know He is the one? LORD, I ask you for a map in this matter now.
It is such a beautiful way to pray, presenting these witnesses one after the other before God. There is full assurance that your prayers will ascend into the holy of holies where the angels await to mix them with incense in His presence — where answers await to be sent back to you.
In a sense, my journals say to me — He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever!
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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