The Lord is waiting for us to ask Him for more. The “more” is the revelation of those things happening in the realm of the Spirit that will invade our conscious mind and life experience and change us forever. This hunger for more will keep us from settling into a mundane expression of our faith where we would never expect or dare to ask the Lord for such experiences. 

As I remembered the Lord in communion this morning, I asked Him for something more. It is a request I occasionally make. I asked Him, “Lord reveal your mysteries to me.” I never pray this as a demand. I simply want to hear and see things not revealed or discerned when my focus is only on this world.

After communion, I began to read Scripture. This morning, I was reading about the birth of Sampson. When the angel of the Lord appeared to the mother of Sampson and gave her instructions about her son’s birth, she commented to her husband, “He looked like one of God’s angels, terrifying to see” (Judges 13:6). I know what Sampson’s mother was feeling. Not all supernatural experiences produce joy-bells. Some will freeze us in our tracks calling our faith to attention and letting us know we are in the presence of something supernatural expressed in the holiness of God. These are not casual experiences.

After the wife shared her angelic encounter with her husband, he prayed and asked for the angel to return. God answered his prayer. When the angel appeared again to his wife, she ran to get her husband. When the angel appeared a second time, he repeated the instructions on how to raise their son. The man then asked for the name of the angel. The angel replied, “Why do you ask my name? the angel of the Lord replied. It is too wonderful for you to understand” (vs. 18). 

Some of the things we ask of the Lord will be too wonderful to understand when they occur. It is not for us to fully understand all the answers to our prayers. That is not their purpose. When these things happen, the experience will change us forever. No longer will we be content with an expression of faith that does not expect or believe in the supernatural, we will want to see more. It will keep us asking for more of God and for the ability to see into the realm of the Spirit where the mysteries of God are taking place with clarity. 

We have the Lord’s persmission to ask Him to reveal to us what is alive and happening beyond the veil. There will be times when the answer to those prayers appears to go unanswered, sometimes for decades. The Lord has not forgotten our requests. It is about His timing, not ours.

When the answer to our prayers does arrive, the experience can cause us to respond like Sampson’s mother – it will be too “terrifying to see.” This will not be a terror that creates an unhealthy fear. It is a holy fear produced by awe designed to interrupt a mundane expression of our faith that we too easily accept as the norm without asking the Lord for something more.