Children of God should pray believing that
their prayers will be answered. To do otherwise is to doubt God’s Word, and this
displeases Him.
In the Devotional Faith Checkbook Charles
H. Spurgeon writes, “We do not pray because we doubt but because we believe. To pray
unbelievingly is unbecoming in the LORD's children.”
In Matthew 7:7-8 Jesus
tells us to “Ask!”
because “everyone who asks receives.” He
says also in John 14:13-14 that anything we ask in His name He will do. Many other places in God’s Word
confirms that He answers our prayers and that we should pray with faith.
“And this is the confidence that we have
toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if
we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests
that we have asked of him.” 1 John
5:14-5
“...the
prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up.”
James 5:15
“Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He
prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for
three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the
earth produced its crops.” James 5:17-18
God’s promises and commands are written for our well-being.
We must meditate on them often to have a prayer life that pleases God – one of
faith. If we have weak faith our first and most fervent prayer should be for
God to help us to increase our faith.
We can also keep a prayer journal. Having a record
in our own words of specific prayers being answered would increase our faith,
embolden our “asks” and teach us to recognize and be grateful to God for His
faithfulness. This will please God.
Prayer and
Thanksgiving: Holy Father and God, you are a comfort to your people – body,
spirit and soul. According to your Word we ask first that you help us in our
unbelief. Give us mercy as we pray and heal our diseases; save our unsaved loved
ones; return our prodigals to the fold; provide jobs so we can care for our
families and help others in need; prosper our ministries for your Name’s sake; open
new opportunities for us to take the gospel to the lost; and help us to live in
peace with others. Father, we ask these and all things by your Word that was
with you in the beginning; your Word that is God; your Word that became flesh
and dwelt among us; His name is Jesus. We
love you. To you, Father, be dominion and power for ever and ever. Amen.
Always by God’s Word and prayer,
Cecile
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