Our Confidence in Prayer {{Let's Have Coffee}}

I must admit – there are days I just need the quiet. The calmness does my body and soul good, since my emotions can war against me.

I spent time reflecting and ended up reading in 1 John 5 and became glued to one verse – a most familiar one at that:

“This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” (verse 14, NASB)

Those words stopped me right there, falling deeply.

Today my prayer for all of you is truly this – bask in the truth, the reality – that when we pray, the God of the universe hears us.

The words we utter to Him – in desperation, deliberately, or casually – He hears each one. Not a single word offered up in prayer falls on deaf ears.

While the Scripture may not mean that He responds in exactly the manner we desire, it does mean that He hears us and He responds. Sometimes His response is a “yes”, sometimes a “no”, and sometimes a “wait” or even a “later”. But He hears us. Even the prayer which is nothing more than our tears, He hears each one as they fall.

We tend to think the responses we receive are indicative of the “success” of our prayers. May we not fall into this trap of the enemy.

“Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.” (Andrew Murray)

We are limited in our understanding of prayer, and of God’s ability, because our minds are finite. Well, at least mine is.

But today, let’s remember when God answers our prayers, His answers may look different than our expectations. This does not mean He has not answered in the best possible way.

What it does mean is that He sees the full picture, the beginning from the end. He is a good God who does all things well.

May we keep praying
and trusting Him with, and for, the answer.
Be confident that He hears you.

If you stop here and are a blogger, this post is for us all. I am so grateful for the wisdom Linda Stoll shares in her post, “What online creators don’t talk about HERE.” May we always make it our goal to please God with our writing, letting Him use it as He deems best.