TIPPING POINT AGAIN

Recently I have been seeing and hearing so much about tipping point. Even a sister was saying that she was impressed upon tipping point in one article and then she saw my blog post on this same topic! Yesterday, I just managed to watch Cindy Jacob’s message on word of the Lord for 2016. She was saying that 2016 is the year that the tide turns. I was wondering how different this message was compared to last year when she said 2015 is the year when God turns things around. I read another article that both 15 and 16 talked about divine reversals and turn around. But somehow from her preaching, it would seem like the tide turning was a more powerful word than last year.

In her message, she also mentioned about tipping point and suddenly God will do this thing. Well, that got me excited and I further searched the meaning of tipping point. I think I may know it all. Tipping point is like a turning point when things change. But I may not know it all. So I searched and found this article titled 'The tipping point of prayer'. The writer Helen Calder said God wants to encourage you in relation to answers to prayer—especially in circumstances where you have prayed for a long time about a situation or person. (Again it relates to longstanding circumstances!)

'Tipping Point’ is a phrase that is commonly used today—and one that the Holy Spirit has recently been bringing to her attention. The term ‘tipping point’ originated in the science of physics: Imagine an object that is balanced, but if you were to add a small amount of weight, you will cause it to topple—that is the tipping point. 'A tipping point may be an addition or increment that in itself might not seem extraordinary but that is unexpectedly, just the amount of additional change that will lead to a big effect.’

A tipping point is often considered to be a turning point—especially, the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped. The tipping point of prayer is the moment at which God moves in response to persistent prayer, to bring about His answer. In Luke 18, Jesus taught a parable about a widow who was seeking justice from an ungodly judge, who couldn’t have cared less about her.

However, because she persisted, and she kept returning to him again and again, there came a moment—a tipping point—when she pestered him for the last time. The unrighteous judge said, ‘That’s it! I’ve had enough! I will give her what she wants!’ And Jesus said how much more will our just God and Father answer the prayers of His people who keep crying out to Him.  (This reminded me of how often the Lord kept saying about the attacks and delay: Enough is enough!)

God collects our prayers! Our prayers accumulate before the throne! In fact, God not only collects our prayers, He collects our tears. ‘You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your book?’ (Psalm 56:8, NKJV)

To those of you who have been praying for a long time—you may have been praying for family members to come to God, for a miracle, or for situations to shift, hear the Lord saying:'Your prayers are fragrant to Me, they are an offering. Know that your prayers are not being wasted. I have savoured and collected every one. The tipping point is on its way when I pour out the accumulated power of those prayers into the answer and the breakthrough.’

Don’t stop short of the tipping point! This principle is why Jesus said of prayer: “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Luke 11:9-10) The verb is in the present continuous tense in the Greek: ‘ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking.’ As you continue to persevere in prayer, there is going to come a tipping point, when the answer to your prayers is going to break loose.

Sometimes, we pray as though God needs to be convinced—as though we must try to persuade Him out of a position of reluctance, when the opposite is the case. Through continuous prayer, you get into alignment with the Father’s desires and what is on His heart. And then, the moment, the tipping point comes. Heaven breaks loose the answer to your prayer. The tipping point of prayer is the moment at which God moves in response to persistent prayer, to bring about His answer. And that answer is on its way.