Tear-force
Who in the
days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard
in that he feared; (Hebrews 5:7)
I call Tear-force the
‘critical prayer state’. It is the stage
in which the man of prayer is ‘wholly’ consumed spirit,
soul, and body in his tenacious request.
It is the threshold that marks the end of merry-making, fun-catching excitement
and launches into the pressing do-or-die desperate grab of the Saviour’s garment.
At this juncture, not just your spirit is doing something. Your mind is
entirely overwhelmed, out-stretched and
‘sold-out’ and
the body simply gives in to the ‘burning’;
(usually) evidenced by profuse sweating (even in cold weather) and the face
blurred with the ‘baptism’ of tears and
intense perspiration. Ah!!!!!!! At this zenith, the entire heavens is brought
to a halt in aweful admiration and
fascination to give attendance to the heat of fervency of groanings emanating
from God’s cherished saint who has despised the weakness of his flesh and the
hostility and non-favourability of the earthly realm to raise an altar from
where a sweet-smelling delight is oozing
from. Ahhhhh! PRAYER IRRESISTIBLE! That’s what we
call tear-force!
Dear saint, you just start the prayer and get it to a tear-force. Many times we are not
consumed by the prayer point suggested to us because first, it was only
suggested to us, not impressed upon our heart and that we have not seen the
need/exigency of it. “Why do I have to pray this prayer?”
we claim to know but we only have a casual knowing: the need is not deep-seated
in our heart. But no worries dear! You can ‘push’
yourself into tear-force. Gather relevant
scriptural ‘seeds’ and be mind-overfed by
them. You may also get out to see things
happening around you and listen to testimonies. Get the burden in the heart of
God from the Scriptures and the same burden jumps into you! Waaaahhhh!!! You
are into ‘strong crying’ and inevitably tears.
‘Oh the zeal of thine house has
consumed me’ is what men will testify of you. As for Jesus, His passion-cooked
sweats splatter on the ground like great drops of blood. Hey!!! You can only
get the ‘tears’ from an orange when there
is first a ‘pressing’. You will pray more
effectively when you can feel a pressing need for it; without this, please go to sleep! Do not wait for the time of
afflictions or when the evil days draw near. NOW
is the time to pray! Get up!!!
