It happened two weeks ago. I was scheduled to fly to Mexico City on Friday, January 10, 2020, at 8:56 a.m. I was going to Mexico to visit friends, but also to take some of my books to Christian leaders there.
The day before my flight was scheduled to take off, the weather forecast predicted rain and thunderstorms through the night, beginning around 11:00 p.m., with the intensity increasing to “strong storms” in the morning.
I received this travel alert from American Airlines in an email, informing me that I could change my flight without a fee:
This trip had been planned for many weeks. I had already paid for my hotel in Mexico City. I felt that it was God’s will for me to make this trip, so I didn’t accept that, after making all of these plans, it would be best for me to cancel everything now and make different plans. That didn’t feel right, and it didn’t make sense to me.
So instead of changing the plans that had been in place for many weeks, I decided to speak to this situation. I spoke to the weather. I said, “Weather, I speak to you in the name of Jesus Christ. I am scheduled to fly out of DFW Airport tomorrow on a flight to Mexico City. I am in alignment with God’s will in taking this trip. In order for you to be aligned with God’s will, I command you to clear the skies to allow for plane traffic from DFW Airport to Mexico City tomorrow morning until after 9:00 a.m. Clear the skies around the airport in the morning until a reasonable window of time has passed for this flight to take off so that this flight will not be canceled because of weather.”
I also prayed to God, “Father, I believe that I am in alignment and agreement with your will in taking this trip to Mexico City. I ask you to clear the weather from DFW Airport to Mexico City so that my scheduled flight will not be canceled, but that it would be allowed to fly as scheduled tomorrow morning.”
That night, I went to sleep with the forecast still showing rain and storms beginning around 11:00 that night and increasing throughout the night and into the next day.
When I woke up the next morning, I discovered that it did not rain through the night any more than a light drizzle in Dallas. When I checked the forecast, I saw that it had changed. Heavy rain had been taken out of the forecast until around 9:00 a.m. After that, strong thunderstorms were forecast. The storm forecast had been pushed all the way back from 11:00 the night before to 9:00 a.m. that morning.
Before I left to go to the airport, I checked again, and the rain forecast had been pushed back even further to 10:00 a.m., so I knew that my flight would not be canceled because of weather in Dallas.
My plane took off as scheduled, and I arrived on schedule in Mexico City.
There were strong storms in Dallas later that day, but by that time, I was already out of the country. Along with the rain that day, there were tornadoes, strong winds, and flooding in some areas, as reported by local news outlets. Many homes were left without electrical power as a result of the storms. One of the tornadoes produced winds up to 75 miles per hour and traveled briefly through Irving, Texas, very close to the DFW Airport, where my plane had taken off earlier in the day.
- Severe Storms Slam Through Multiple North Texas Counties
- Ten Tornadoes Confirmed from the January 10, 2020 Event
- National Weather Service confirms 2 more tornadoes in North Texas from Friday’s storms
Commanding nature to come into agreement with God’s will is not a hard fight. All of nature groans while it waits for all of us to mature to the point where we can take full authority that God has granted to us as mature sons and daughters of God to direct nature to come into alignment with the will and the purposes of God.
“For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly [because of some intentional fault on its part], but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay [and gain entrance] into the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only this, but we too, who have the first fruits of the Spirit [a joyful indication of the blessings to come], even we groan inwardly, as we wait eagerly for [the sign of] our adoption as sons—the redemption and transformation of our body [at the resurrection].”— Romans 8:19-23 (AMP)
Jesus promised that we can speak to nature and it will obey our voice if we have faith and do not doubt.
“Early in the morning, Jesus was on his way back to Jerusalem. He was hungry. He saw a fig tree by the road. He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Right away the tree dried up.
When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?” they asked.
Jesus replied, “What I’m about to tell you is true. You must have faith and not doubt. Then you can do what was done to the fig tree. And you can say to this mountain, ‘Go and throw yourself into the sea.’ It will be done. If you believe, you will receive what you ask for when you pray.”— Matthew 21:18-22 (NIRV)
This is also recorded in Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV):
“So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
Prophecies have come forth saying that the Bride of Christ will change tactics in the coming years, fulfilling this Scripture. Rather than praying and waiting for God to make things happen, Believers will learn to declare and command according to God’s will, in full confidence and faith in God, and those things they speak will be done.
Commanding nature was not a new concept that Jesus introduced. It had been done before. In the Old Testament, God told Ezekiel to command the winds:
“Then the Lord said to me, “Speak to the wind for me. Son of man, speak to the wind for me. Tell the wind that this is what the Lord God says: ‘Wind, come from every direction and breathe air into these dead bodies! Breathe into them and they will come to life again!’”
So I spoke to the wind for the Lord, as he said, and the breath came into the dead bodies. They came to life and stood up. There were many men—a very large army!”— Ezekiel 37:9-10 (ERV)
Joshua commanded the sun and moon:
“On that day the Lord gave Israel the victory against the Amorites. Joshua stood before all the Israelites and said to the Lord:
“Sun, stop over Gibeon. Moon, stand still over the Valley of Aijalon.”
So the sun did not move, and the moon stopped until the people defeated their enemies. This story is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky. It did not move for a full day.”—Joshua 10:12-13 (ERV)
Before we command nature, we must first examine our hearts to make sure that we are in agreement with God’s will, as the Apostle John exhorted us in 1 John 5:13-15 (AMPC):
“And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.
“And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.”
For this trip, I was not told specifically by God to go to Mexico City, but in the past, if I made plans that did not agree with God’s will, He would often reveal that to me, especially if I asked Him about it specifically.
I examined my heart to see if my motives were pure for going to Mexico, then I thought about possible options, to see if God might have a different plan in mind. I did not discern anything different than what I had already planned. That’s when I decided to speak to the weather. It seemed to me that the storms, as they had been forecast, were out of alignment with God’s will for what needed to take place on that Friday morning.
When I spoke to the weather, and combined it with prayer to God, the weather seemed only too pleased to cooperate with the will of God in this situation. People may fight and rebel against the will of God, but nature seems to be just waiting and groaning for a chance to cooperate with the will and plans of our Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ!
