A Cloud the Size of a Man’s Hand

There was this one season when friends were calling me to bail them out. One (who I hadn’t talked to in a long time) randomly inboxed me asking for a loan of 600k! This had gone on and on — not by this friend but many others asking for loans of 100k, 50 … etc.

I had begun getting irritated. The sums were huge considering the financial blues I was experiencing. But God told me I was missing the point.

‘Many see you rich,’ He said. ‘Despite your financial lows, it doesn’t change the aura you have created by your belief and prayer and the becoming vision or manifesting of your meditation.’

What He meant was: I was in transition and experiencing Mark 11:23’s ‘he shall have whatsoever he saith.’ I had already created the reality of wealth. Of someone who looks like he can ‘bail anyone out.’

I call this a cloud the size of a man’s hand; deriving its origin from when Elijah was praying back the rain. When he asked his servant whether the weather had changed, he said he had noticed a cloud that small rising out the sea.

Elijah never continued praying. It was evidence enough that he had been answered. My friends calling me to lend them, was a cloud the size of a man’s hand: representing the meditation I had been brooding over from Deuteronomy 28:12. If I will lend to many nations, I can as well start with a few people.

I recall another cloud when I had been believing God for an iPhone 13 Pro. Throughout the latter part of 2023, at weddings I was being asked to take photos of guests, and everyone was handing me that particular phone. I held it not less than thrice at one wedding, and I was weary of its mockery.

The Holy Spirit whispered to me saying, ‘Don’t you get it? The phone is gravitating towards you. It is answering your confession. It’s recognized you.’ A few months later, I got to own my own.

The actual moral of the story is … the turning point or encouraging sign in all our waiting, is recognizing the small clouds; the winks God gives of having answered us.

This past week’s Monday, I celebrated my birthday. On Friday, a friend handed me his gifts saying “I know the Holy Spirit can’t be wrong.” Essentially, he must have prayed before he settled to get me an adidas track suit and an Eiffel tower key holder. He said, “This is for when we will go to Paris.”

(Last August, a friend relocated to France, and he said he wouldn’t wait to have me there). These are all little gestures speaking prophecy.

I was overwhelmed at my friend’s gifts. I hugged him with thanks and tried on the suit. It fit! Then I went on home.

While at supper, the Holy Spirit brought to remembrance earlier gifts I had received.

Prior to this one, I had received two different key-holders in March and July.

Something in my Spirit moved.

Why key-holders?

That’s when I had a light bulb moment!

I had prophecies of a car prodigally in 2023! I’ve been as well confessing Deuteronomy 6:11’s ‘having houses filled with all beautiful things that I didn’t fill’!

Each of the key-holders are a cloud, a shadow of an actual key soon to arrive! In my blog Shadows of Things to Come, I demonstrated that for things spiritual, shadows create objects whilst for things physical, objects create shadows!

The key-holders are shadows … creating objects of keys. Keys to my houses, to my cars, to other important doors! Even to nations! The green-white-red key holder was from Italy, brought back as a souvenir by my employer.

As soon as this light bulb moment of a revelation hit me, I leaped with joy & tongues! Glorifying the Lord for His winks, and encouragement!

Like Elijah, I now await the sound of the rain. The prayers have done their part. It’s time for the harvest! Though I sowed in tears, I reap in joy!

May God open your eyes as well, to the clouds the size of a man’s hand around you, and may He grant your faith enough hope to fuel it — until the carrying of your testimony!

These clouds could be many invitations to weddings when you aren’t married yet; or to baby showers when you are believing for a child.

So keep believing! Keep speaking! Watch for the shadows! For they are the evidence of things unseen; and the substance of things hopes for. (Heb 11:1)

Cheers!