It’s as if some people believe that when they utter a prayer it just floats around in the heavens somewhere, and if they get really lucky God will catch it. Some people believe that God is so busy that they can only HOPE that He has time to hear from them and they’re meek and weak in their requests because of it. Some people repeat their prayers for a little while and when they don’t see the answer they assume God didn’t hear them OR that He has no intention of answering them at all. Some people think God needs all the details before He’ll hear the request. These people spell out the circumstances to God as if He isn’t aware of them already, and they use the first, last, and middle names of whoever they pray for as if God might get them mixed up with somebody else unless they did. Some people are prayer wussies, and they’re too afraid to ask God for big things, while some prayers are so generic that it’s nearly impossible to understand what the request is about at all. But no matter the prayer or who whispers it God hears each and every one and He treasures them all. Prayer is the way we talk to our God, and how we pray is a big indicator of the condition of the Heart. Do we believe that He’ll hear them and do we Trust that no prayer goes “unanswered”? This is the Key to Faith.
Sometimes I get emotional as I consider each prayer that I’ve prayed over my children (and now my grandchildren) and how my prayers will last for generations that I won’t even live to see. Every single one of my prayers is like “incense” in Heaven…a sweet aroma to the Living God. My prayers are permanent! God never gets tired of hearing my prayers, and the bolder they are the more beautiful to Him. He knows that when I pray, I pray with belief and I’m confident that I never pray in vain. I’ve seen the Hand of a Mighty God in my family as He gave me the Wisdom to guide them, and He opened and closed doors that they never dreamed were possible. I’ve marveled as I’ve watched Him unveil His answer to my prayers, and sometimes the solution was well beyond anything I could have imagined for myself…and sometimes the answer was “No”. Some prayers have been prayed by me for a very long time, and I’m not inclined to stop. He hears me, and He’ll send the Answer along when He’s ready with the Right one. No matter how long I have to wait, I won’t stop praying AND I’ll never stop Believing in the outcome. I Trust Him. I love Him. I Believe.
It’s easy to stand tall and to be bold when you actually Believe that God has you by the right hand and that He’s leading you. It’s easy to pray with excitement day after day when you know that the One that created the heavens and the earth loves you and He hears every single prayer…AND He treasures them. I pray with boldness, not just because I know I’m heard, but because I KNOW that my prayers have Power.
How about you?
Luke 18:1-8
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally, he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
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