ANSWERED PRAYER

PSALM 143:7-8 (NIV) “Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit. Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”

Do you know the phrase “it was as if the heavens were made of brass”? When referring to our prayers to God this phrase is intended to mean that it is as if our prayers go up and simply bounce off an invisible barrier, keeping them from reaching God. Have you ever felt like that? That your prayers to God weren’t making it all the way to His ear? That something was keeping them from reaching Him? I have. In this age of immediacy we tend to grow impatient very quickly. If you think waiting for a waiter to acknowledge that you’ve been waiting for 5 minutes without receiving a menu yet is frustrating, try waiting on God.

Not waiting for God can take you on a tangent you will wish you had never taken. Patience is required. Lessons must be learned. Fretting is counterproductive. Scripture teaches us to ‘fret not’, to ‘cast all our cares on Him’. Easier said than done. Our eyes do us a disservice at times, as we seek anything that will bring about a desired answer. Once our answer is achieved, we attribute it to God and move forward. But was it really God’s answer? How can we know for sure?

The only way to truly know if God is providing your answer is to truly KNOW God. Without an intimate knowledge of Him and His word it is fairly easy to be led astray by the enemy. Intimate knowledge takes time … possibly your entire life, but it is a journey worth taking. God will never leave you off in a ditch, nor will He remain silent forever. He has a perfect plan for you. He has a perfect place for you. He has a perfect time to reveal to you all that you need to know . We just need to wait … patiently. While it may not be YES just yet, it also may not be NO … your answer may reside in the land of the “NOT YET”. It is a place where God is at work preparing events and circumstances that will bring about the proper, perfect answer to your prayer. God is never late. He is never wrong. He is never silent forever … just long enough to accomplish His purpose in your life. Yield to God. Surrender to His Spirits leading. Know Him. It is a matter of ‘determining’. Determining that you are going to know God as well as you possibly can. Want answers to your prayers? Tap into the great ‘I AM’ and watch things happen.

WALK WITH THE KING TODAY AND BE A BLESSING!