The Pleading Jesus
September 29th, 2009 by Shyju Mathew
We had an amazing night at the crusade in Penang, Malaysia. I am so blessed to be a witness to the many mighty healings and to see salvation come to the masses. After the meeting, we went for dinner.
It was 1:30am, by the time I reached the hotel. I was drained and tired, and even the thought of having to wake up by 8am, as I had to go to Church, was exhausting. But, I wanted to spend more time seeking God even though it was late.
I managed to seek God for a while and went off to bed with the thought that, “Lord, if you really want me to pray, please wake me up in the morning”. I wonder if that was an excuse. I slipped off into deep sleep and guess what, at exactly 3am; I got up as though I was woken up by somebody but being me, I wanted to sleep some more. I turned to the other side and went off to sleep till I was woken up at 4am. Then, I slept again. Now, I saw a dream. In my dream, I saw my mom pleading with me saying, “Please, my son”, and to those words, I woke up immediately. And then I realized instantly that it was not my mom but the Lord, waiting to hear from me in my room.
In that moment, I realized how often I have kept my Lord waiting. It felt like Jesus waiting at the shore for Mr. Peter who was drifting away into the deep sea. But, just like in my dream, our Lord is very gentle never forceful. And I know this for certain that He would have let me sleep if I would have turned to the other side again. I am reminded of the time when he is almost pleading to His disciples, in Matthew 26:40, Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter.
Have you been keeping Jesus lately? “It is with a gentle stillness and the tender nudge that the Holy Spirit moulds mighty warriors.” God wants this generation to respond to the still voice of the Spirit. It was only after God saw that Moses had stepped forward to see the burning bush that God called out to him from the bush!(Exodus 3: 4).
James 4: 8 says, “Draw near to God and he will draw near to you…” The scripture goes on to say, “Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Are we double minded about spending time in prayer? Is this blog for you? Have you been keeping Him waiting? My friend, the most important thing you can ever do in your life is to have a close walk with God, your creator. He is waiting to see you take the first step. Start today! Start now!
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I’ve been like that, always, first ask His help to wake for devotion and prayer, but when I get to wake up, I do the same thing; sleep back, then wake up, then sleep back…till in the end, it’s already very late. I just feel very terribly guilty now. I really do want to start my day with spending time with God. Just Him and me…but it seems so hard. How am I to change this???
praise god mathew! i had the same thing! i was so tired and lay down to sleep.
and i had a dream in that dreams i saw jesus standing beside a man and look
it at him he was a hindu man ! and he was start to sucide . and jesus said
to me daughter tell to this people not to be afraid i wil be with them like i was with mathew .
then 3:00 am i heard gods voice said to me pray” my daughter and then i start
to pray for the man and was praying. neext day i told my mom that i saw this dream and god spoke to me. and neext day we heard the news that he was fighting with his wife and was to sucide!! god is amasing then i knew that god see also hindu people to -
god bless you mathew
Even though short, very powerful and to the point. Thanks for posting. I especially loved when you said “It was only after God saw that Moses had stepped forward to see the burning bush that God called out to him from the bush!” How true! I pray that I will draw even closer to Jesus, I don’t want to keep my Master waiting.
Blessed!
Going to pray rite away!!!!
hi!!! Shyju , praise the lord , i am experiencing the same thing that you recentlyare….before going to sleep every day i ask the lord to wake me up at 3am, so that i can spend a couple of hours in his presence…..till 4:30 am i spend time talking to him and then i start with my daily household chores….this has become a routine now ….God wakes me up if not exactly at 3am then it has to be between 3am to 3:30am…i just get up suddenly i don’t know how and the first thing i do is see the time. When i wake up in the morning i am so looking forward to spending time with the lord. Amazing!!! he talks to me and let me share something with you ….recently at about 3:15am a bright light flashed on my face, it was so bright that i couidn’t take it and i had to shut my eyes…..from that day onwards people are noticing a lot of change in me……Glory to God.
Extremely scary how God speaks sometimes! The message could not be clearer… Thanks for posting this – now I have some repenting and praying to do… Bye
I realise that much many times i would have disappointed Jesus
.. many times it happens with many of us, we think of praying and as we decide to pray and something interupts and we pay our attention to it though we didn’t intend, we disappoint Jesus as He would have ready to us to listen to what we pray and talk to us and answer our prayers!!!! I am So very sorry Jesus 
Hey Bro. Shyju! This word is for me! I was just slipping into feeling weary and tired…which in all hinders me from entering into that secret place (in fact, it started this very morning)! This is very timely and thank you for being obedient and posting this message. I will definetly continue to press in, and sit at our Lord’s feet, and be sensitive to the voice of Holy Spirit! I also pray that God will strengthen you brother, as you pour out! Rest is promised to the Lord’s beloved, so this is your promise! May the Lord fill you to overflow even now!!! Amen!
Hi Shyju,
Honestly I used to be exactly like that , I could never really keep my dates with Him. But since about a month i have been keeping my morning dates with Him. One day I was finding it so hard to wake up, my eyes were wide open but I could not bring myself out of bed till then I just streched out my arms up, you know like kids do when their parents wake them up and they want to be picked up and I felt so light that it was as if someone had pulled me up of bed. It makes so much sense…Only when I reached out to Him did He pick me up…if only I had realized this a long time ago, I wouldn’t have missed out on all the fun dates with Him…
Brother
When it comes to practical its too difficult, but everything is possible by training…
Thank you for the seed you put it, definitely i allow to grow this seed.
God bless you
Robby
I agree Robby, its a part of discipline too.
Jesus is a perfect gentleman. As it says, He is at our door knocking, and wont enter without us allowing Him to… Can’t believe why the Creator of the entire Universe, has done so much to love You & me… Unbelievable!! may God bless your writing, brother!!
Hi Shyju,
Every post of yours are so fresh and thats why i like them. So fresh from the Father!! I admire your walk with the Lord and its a great inspiration for me.
Every hour during the night I am awakened, now I know why God is calling me to pray to protect myself against satan and his wiles. We are at our weakest when we don’t pray.
Often during prayer He leads me to a scripture then I can’t stop reading. He is arming us during the twilight hours to rise up for Him as His army of warriors. Armed in the Word, in Prayer, in Prophetic, in Healing, in Worship, in LOVE. Everything to arm us is contained in the Living Word – God’s Word.
So True.
I Believe that this message is truely for me. As from few days I was planning to spend time in prayer early morning but just as u said.. i always end up closing my alarm and goin to sleep again.
But our heavenly father always keeps speaking with us in so many different ways and im sure this blog is one way that the Lord speaks to me.
Dear Bro.
It is time we enquired of the Lord early in the morning.
Praise Lord for your word. Everyone goes thru it.. but
thru it all we can stand victorious.
GBU and mighty annointing upon your life.
Thanks bro.shyju for this wonderful word from God . I always do that thinking of waking up early n praying and then continuing my sleep. I would not keep my dada on waiting and definitely go more closer to Him.God bless you
hi bro shyju,
this was just for me…each time i ask God to wake me up,i get up look, at the time and think of getting up after another 10 mins… land up getting up by 6 again and then a hurried bible reading,a ’sorryJesus,will come back and spend time with You’, and then come home and say,’from tomo, for sure i won’t let this happen!!’ i did this even today mrng… got up only by6..every time i feel bad cos i didn’t live upto my word but now feeling so guilty for having let My Jesus down…thank u so much for this post.. going to pass this on to all my friends who keep telling me that they have the same difficulty… Here I come Jesus…!!!
This blog is exactly for me…i came back to my comp to log off and take a nap…..my servant maid requested in morning me to pray tat her daughter gets back 52k money loaned to another person…..shame on me i ve been putting it off inspite of Holy Spirit prompting me………ok i m off to pray then catch my nap
Shyju,
This is true for me
but it is high time to get rid of all laziness.
I always used to think, Jesus knows only to love, that too without any conditions. How privileged we are, that we belong to Him
one that make me amazed about my God is that He never fail to show me His various plan and wonders, to let me know that His power is unlimit and love is unconditional…..
What really struck me is the “gentle stillness of the HolySpirit” which enable us to become a peculiar treasure for God if only we are ready to listen to His soft gentle voice apart from all our surrounding situations….
Thank you brother
Hello Bro.Shyju,
Really it is very nice and inspired me also. I want to talk and walk with our almighty LORD Jesus Christ. Please pray for me to have a continues communication with our Jesus Christ.
Thank You for sharing very valuable word of god.
God Bless You
Yours Brother in christ
Venu.K
oh my!!!
this blog was so timely and for me…. i have been ignoring those nudges of the holy spirit over some areas of my life…. thank you so much….
I just wanted to add an experience I had this year which proves that our efforts to justify ourselves as to why we are too busy and can’t pray enough fall on deaf ears with God. I am expecting another child and during the first 3 months I had a very hard time, with one viral and one bacterial infection on top of pregnancy symptoms, so after I recovered I had a week of renewed physical energy. Since I was behind a lot with house work and many other things, I justified myself that I really can’t spend much time in prayer, because I have other responsabilities to my family, etc and I should get at least more up to date.
Well, towards the end of the week I had a dream. In the dream, a man of God full of the Spirit of God, came and laid hands on me and spoke the words of God to me: You are saying in your heart: how can I pray when I have so much to do that awaits my attention (I have a 4 year old as well). Then God replied to that: BUT I want you to pray! And then warned me that if I didn’t there will be consequences. Well, I got the message that no excuses, even things that seem reasonable to us, do not convince God, if He wants you to do something, you better just do it, and MAKE time for it, even if other things suffer. Needless to say,
I was up after this dream with a lot of fear of God on me and I went straight on my knees (at 2 am) and did not stop till 5.30 in the morning, when God said it is enough, as I did not want to live His presence anymore, it was so good!
It God draws you to prayer, JUST DO IT, no excuse will work with Him!
I remember another instance when I was running a business and in the middle of a very busy time with many clients waiting for a response from me, God told me: Stop and start praying for your grandfather to be saved. I prayed before for him many times and I felt it was rather inconvenient, and I sort of asked God: Now, Lord? meaning, I think the timing is rather inconvenient. Then He replied: Well, if you want to have his blood on your hands, don’t do it! Well, that GOT my attention. I immediately dropped everything and went to pray. I had a heavy burden on me from God, I went with my face on the ground and really wept and wept for his soul and became really bold in asking God for his soul: I felt I was holding Him by His robe and I said: I will NOT let go till you give me his soul. After some time, I felt a release and started to rejoice in my spirit. I knew I had the answer. I then sent a pastor to my grandfather house, as he lives in a different country and my grandfather who was resistant to the Gospel before received Jesus super easy. He soon became sick and died in a few months, only after asking again for the prayer for salvation that I have sent him in a letter
. Listen to God about praying, on your prayers can hinge the eternal destiny of someone who is close to death or even your own soul! Don’t neglect the wisdom of God, HE KNOWS BETTER!
Hey bhaiya,i am blessed that you prayed for my salvation,and i believe that Anointing spreads,i use to pray in the morning,but from few days i’hv started waiting upon the Lord in the silence,and through that Only LORD is teaching me so many things through His word..i m blessed. Deepika,new Delhi
Hi Shyju, Very powerful thought. I too am guilty of keeping my Lord waiting. I too struggle with getting up in the morning and having that much needed devotional time. What I love about Jesus is when we surrender and obey, He really does not keep us long. He may be urging us to pray in intercession for someone else. I had an experience on Friday night, the eve of our prayer and praise breakfast. I had been going all day and all night and when I got to bed a little pass midnight, I was trying to salvage as much rest as I could before the 6 a.m. alarm. At about 3:30 a.m. the Spirit woke me up eyes wide open. I heard the voice say pray and I laid in my bed and muttered something for about 5 minutes and drifted back to sleep. No more than 15 -20 minutes later the Lord spoke and said “I know that you are tired but I need you to get up and pray”. I obeyed and He allowed me to pray for the upcoming praise breakfast that was just a few hours away. The praise and pray breakfast was a success. I pray that I will be more sensative to the Spirit when he calls. Thank you for your transparency.
Hey shyju!
You went to Penang!
That’s so cool…it’s my hometown…
And I actually met you at Manipal a day ago….haha
Thank you for coming…I feel very much renewed now…
You’re a great inspiration to the youth….God bless you
Jacinta
Very true Brother Shyju. I see it happening these days. I work in call center and read Bible when I get up in night. Generally I keep alarm for 8 PM – but SOME HOW I will get up by 7 PM and then I will read Word and pray.