“Whatever you ask for in prayer,
believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Mark 11:24
How do you pray when your world is
falling apart? Do you stop praying and conclude that God has ignored you? Many
people have given up on God because they prayed for something and it didn’t
happen. Have you who are Christian leaders failed to make what the Bible says
about Prayer clear enough?
In this book Too Busy Not To Pray,
Bill Hybels passes on a formula explaining why some prayers are unanswered. He
say, “If the request is wrong, God says, “No.” if the timing is wrong, God
says, “Slow.” If you are wrong, God says, “Grow”, but if the request is right,
the timing is right and you are right, God says, “Go!”
God does hear and answer the faintest
plea of His child, but the answers are far deeper than our human understanding.
Simply put, God answers us in four ways.
1.Some answers are direct. The request and the answer move along parallel channels.
That’s the way we like prayer. We ask and immediately receive what we’ve asked
for.
2.Some answers are delayed. Here it is a matter of timing, and God answers us on His
timetable, not ours.
3.Some answers are disguised. We asked God for something and then later, look back and
recognize how God answered – His answer was different from our request. We see
here how much better was His answer.
4.Finally, some answers are denied. He loves you too much to give you everything that you
ask for. I’ve lived long enough to be able to look back and to say, “Thank You
Father that You said, “No” to some of my requests.” Father does know best, and
you can trust Him for the best in your life.”
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