There was a season in my little walk with God when I could pray for 10 hours, non stop.

In that period of my Christian journey, fasting was not an issue…
I could go on a dry fast and still hold vigils..

I could fast and still go pick up a megaphone and go for evangelism.

I could also study more than 10 chapters of the Bible a day…
The hunger for God was there…

I enjoyed this Grace for some time, not until PRIDE came in…
I never knew that what I was enjoying was the Grace of God, until PRIDE came..

And i started boasting of my spiritual Progress.
Whenever I handle the microphone to minister to the Youths, I would tell them; “Do you know I’m no more a baby Christian?… Do you know that I can prayer for 10 hours at a stretch… I can read more than 10 chapters of the Bible daily…?”

The Holy Spirit kept warning me to stop it…
Though not with an audible Voice, but I could recognize His voice…
But I refused to heed to His warnings…

He then decided to withdraw the Grace… He was like saying; “Oya do those things you said you could do again let me see…”

And then I foolishly rose up as other times in the midnight, as usual to pray, but then noticed that the Grace was no more…

At first I thought it was just tiredness, maybe the stress I went through during the day…
But when it kept repeating every night… I then knew that the Grace had left…

I kept struggling for long until one night while I was alone in the Church trying to connect, the Lord showed me mercy through a popular song I know;
“Holy Ghost, do it again,
Do it again in my life…
Open my eyes…
To see Jesus..
Seated upon the throne”
I was singing this song with tears in my eyes,
alone in the Church, and suddenly the Holy Ghost came down mightily, I couldn’t withstand His presence, I fell under the Anointing…

That was how my restoration began…
Judges 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
The Hair of Samson’s Head began to grow again

I don’t know how many of you who have lost high levels of Grace because of PRIDE…
Why not cry to God now; “Oh Lord, have mercy on me, and restore me…”

Source: Uche De Beloved