I needed an answer and I needed it now! I was trying to replace the starter on my lawnmower, and I couldn’t get the old one off. There wasn’t enough space to get my tool in to loosen the bolts. Frustration was setting in, (the devil will do that all the time you know), and I was ready to quit. “God, help me!” Then, the thought came to me, come up from the bottom. I tried it and it worked! Answered prayer!
God hears our prayers. “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” (1 John 5:14). But, did you get that, “according to His will”? We have to know His will and His word about what we’re asking. Otherwise, we will be frustrated by the answer we get or the lack of an answer. So, when we pray according to His will, He hears and will respond. But, keep in mind, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9). How we think our prayers should be answered is not always the way it will go. Sometimes we don’t understand why our prayers are not answered the way we want. The way WE want.
God basically has three ways He will answer us: Yes, No, and Wait. Let’s look at these. “Yes” is what we usually want, and God will sometimes answer our prayers right away, like He did with my lawnmower job. But sometimes He will answer “No” for many reasons: It’s not His will, it won’t be in your best interest, it may harm someone else, or many other reasons. Remember, His ways are higher than ours. Father knows best. Then, there’s the “Wait” answer. I believe this is the answer I get many times. God is saying, “Child, I’ve heard you, your request IS according to My will, but I need to work on some things before I send the answer.” These “things” He needs to work on might be something in us, some circumstance surrounding the situation, something He has to do in another person or some lesson that He wants to teach us first. Like an athlete, you may need some training before God gives you the answer. David cried out to the Lord in his anguish: “Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” (Psalm 61:1-2). In this situation, we may have to trust God to lead us through the” valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4), to reveal our answer. That’s hard but God is with us.
Something we need to remember; If we pray to God and give Him control of the situation, then we must rely on His ways, His timing and THANK Him for whatever He’s doing. Like Danny Gokey sings in one of his songs, “You just haven’t seen it yet”. I had a friend in education once give me the acronym, EGBOK, which meant, “Everything’s gonna be OK”. Hold on, God is working. “Even when I don’t see it, You’re working. Even when I can’t feel it, You’re working. You never stop, You never stop working, You never stop, You never stop working.” – Waymaker by Sinach.
So, if you’re facing something difficult, if you need an answer, wisdom, direction, or peace, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6). Talk to God about it, ask Him what He wants you to do and thank Him. #Godisincontrol.
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