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Jesus answered and said unto them, “Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Matt. 21:21-22
Is this really true? Have you prayed and not seen the answer? The Lord has been reminding me lately that He does indeed answer every prayer. His ways and His timing we don’t always understand. We can’t even imagine the wondrous way He moves in our lives and in the lives of everyone else who is involved in the answer to our prayer. Sometimes it takes years for the answer to our heart’s cry to come forth—but I can tell you from my own experience that He does “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us...” Eph. 3:20.
There is an important condition to having the answer to our prayers. We must have faith and we must not doubt. To me that means putting my faith into action, believing everything God says and being obedient to His word. If I do that, then I want only His will, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. I relinquish my own will to Him, dying to myself, so that He can do whatever He wants with my prayer request and me. I give over into His hands the person or the cause I am praying for, not binding them with my own ideas about how God should work. Then I rest and wait. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” Is. 26:3
In my hardheaded, stiff-necked way, all this has taken me years to truly grasp. I’m still learning. My prayer for you, for all of us, is that we would trust God early, love Him always, and praise Him at every moment for all His wondrous works!
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