Shift

Imagine a large house with lots of windows. It’s there in the evening light, aloof and cold, no flowers in the windows, no decoration around the house, no lights shining in the windows, it looks bare and unwelcoming.
But then you notice that in a small window under the roof a warm light shimmers. You take a look into this small room: it is empty, except for a stool in it – and a beautiful warm ray of light streaming in.

You realize that it’s your spiritual prayer room and that God’s presence is there. Here you turn to God with your worries and needs, you bring the coldness that’s in this house before God. You stand up in prayer for other people or even for yourself. In prayer you are filled with confidence that God hears you and that your problems are in the best hands with Him. You are deeply convinced that God has the best ideas and the will and power to change situations.
During your time of prayer, and sometimes afterwards, you don’t see that anything has changed externally. And yet God says that he hears every one of our prayers. How does this fit together?

There is a shift happening. That’s an expression for relocation, change and transformation. Whether that shift happens in your mind, in the atmosphere of relationships, in a less harsh tone with people, in repentance, in people’s favor, in happy “coincidences,” in approaching where there was rejection, in turning away from bad habits – whatever it is, something is changing.
Sometimes immediately and powerfully, that’s what we wish for! But sometimes a situation changes almost imperceptibly, or much too slowly for our understanding, and yet something moves in the invisible world. Count on the fact that your prayer achieves something – God promises it to you!

This house is a symbol of situations in our environment. When we look at the house after some time, it has changed. In one window a flower appears on the sill, in another it has colorful curtains, and in another a light shimmers.

Prayer brings about such a change, it shifts the atmosphere, it shifts the focus, it brings about a turning towards the good. More and more I discover the power of prayer in my everyday life. God gave me the impression of this house some time ago and I now understand that prayer causes a change in the spiritual atmosphere long before anything becomes visible. This motivates me to pray!

Instead of saying, “It doesn’t do any good for me to pray, I don’t see any change,” we count on God to work. Let us pray powerfully and with faith that something will be set in motion! Because if something moves in the spiritual world, then something will also move in the visible world!