As of right now, depending upon where you are in the world, there are 5 more days before Christmas and 11 more days in this year, the clock is ticking. We’ve been speaking to you about finishing your 2015 strong and seeking God to make this year a year of the extraordinary for you and gifting God with your time, talents and treasures, but if your life has been anything like ours, you may feel like you’ve been to hell and back. From unforeseen circumstances cropping up, to disappointments, anxiety, set backs, potholes along our path, being robbed, being Hacked online constantly, being talked about, being micromanaged and being set up for failure repeatedly, 2015 has been quite an unusual year for us all here at the ministry.  But despite the overwhelming circumstances that we’ve been faced with, through it all, God has helped us. He has kept us, and He has come alongside us to help us make it when almost everyone else has walked away and left us to figure things out, no matter how much we gave them or how much we did to try to help them.   So we know very well what Psalm 124 is talking about when it states;

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when people rose up against us:Then they would have swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:When the waters tried to overwhelmed us, the stream tried to go over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. But blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.  Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth.

You too may know very well from going through so much this year how it feels to go through your own personal unforeseen circumstances, disappointments, setbacks, and anxieties. Experiences that drain life out of you and experiences that try to force you into a dark pit of an abyss will rope you in and try to suck all of the energy and passion out of you that could possibly be available to you, but that is not what God wants for you or for us. God didn’t give us His very best Gift of Jesus Christ for us to be broke, busted and disgusted, sick and can’t hardly make it. John 10:10 states, ~I have come so that you can have life, and so that you can have that life more abundantly. So for so many problems in life to remain unresolved and for so long is not God’s highest and best for you. You may have already learned like we have that problems in life are constant, some problems seem like they are not ever going to get any better and some problems occur that make you say and think ~ if it’s not 1 thing it is something else.  So since problems happen so much, We’d like to encourage you to try a different approach this Christmas Holiday as we celebrate Jesus’ Christ’s birthday. We’d like you to take some time to think about the travail that has happened in your life. Consider wisely what actions you’ve already taken to resolve your problems and then try and figure out in what ways are you seeking God for solutions? If it’s not working, it’s time to change, so try Travailing Prayer before God for a specific purpose.

If the travail that has happened in your life is lingering on and you feel that there have been no solutions presented to you that work, we’d like to invite you to take your travail to God in prayer and pray like you’ve never prayed before for solutions. Travailing Prayer is part of interceding before God for a desired purpose. Many times the answer to your prayer may take days, weeks, months or years to manifest but travailing before God constantly often helps to bring solutions that you seek somewhat sooner. No matter how tired you may be of waiting, and no matter how you might be fed up with bad circumstances, we’ve found that unless you continually seek God for the solutions that you need, They will never come. We too have been placed in some very very bad situations, but we choose to keep going knowing that we are doing the right things for the right reasons, so eventually, the harvest that is due to us will come, because of doing things consistently right regardless.    So, You can’t grow weary just because what you may have been seeking God for has not manifested, you have to keep on praying and keep on seeking no matter what, and no matter how bad it is, or how bad it’s been..You have to have a bold and confident expectancy that God will meet you at your points of needs and answer your prayers, and don’t worry about how long it’s taking, what others are saying about you or what others might think about you.  Just as a woman in a delivery room ready to give birth experiences severe travail, she still moans, and groans and utters even though no one can understand the degree of pain and suffering that she feels as she is trying to give birth. So like a woman ready to give birth, you may moan, groan, be in pain and be tired of praying and waiting, but to get God’s answers you’ve got to keep taking your travail to God and you’ve got to  wail in prayer, until your solutions come. There are many unseen things going on in the Spirit Realm that must come forth before God sends the answer to your travailing prayers. So sometimes the travail that you may be experiencing is simply God setting the stage in your life for you to be able to ~see and be able to recognize the answer to your prayer when He sends it!

So don’t curse any travail that you may be experiencing in your life right now, thank it for it’s unwanted entrance in your life, and then bless it kindly so that it can do the work that it was sent to do and that is usher in God’s answers to your prayers! God already cared enough to give us all Jesus Christ as His best Christmas gift to you. If He has already demonstrated that He cared enough to give us His one and only Son, don’t you think that He will care enough to answer your prayera if you use your travail to birth your miracle this Christmas Holiday?

Want to get serious about using your travail to birth your miracle this Christmas? Use the below Journal to record your travailing prayers and keep a journal as you wait on God’s answers! Pay special attention to How God begins to responds to you to bring forth the solutions you are seeking Him For; http://penzu.com/