The Ups & Downs of Prayer

What's more, presently, Lord, observe their dangers, and award that Thy bond-workers may express Thy word with all certainty, while Thou dost stretch out Thy hand to mend, and signs and ponders happen through the name of Thy blessed worker Jesus.

Acts 4:29-30

Perhaps the best blessing God has ever given man is the endowment of supplication. For what reason is supplication such a unique and superb blessing? Since it interfaces our need with His flexibly, our nothingness with His all-powerful force. God needs us to implore, and He has vowed to answer when we do (Jer. 33:3).

Ok, yet here is the kicker: a large number of us have supplicated and implored and asked … and have not yet observed our answer come. We trust God for the supernatural occurrence we need, yet we mope in the lounge area as we look out for Him to do what we have mentioned. For what reason does God appear to be so slow in noting our supplications?

Here are a portion of the reasons why:

1. The appropriate response is no. Here and there we are approaching God for things that are not with regards to His great and ideal will for our lives. All things considered, His answer will be no. In the event that we proceed in that demand, His answer won't change. God disclosed to Moses he would not go into the Promised Land due to the stone striking occurrence. Moses petitioned God for God to reverse His choice.

Here is the thing that Moses said about that petition: "Yet the LORD was irate with me for you, and would not hear me out; and the LORD said to me, 'Enough! Address Me nothing else of this issue'" (Deuteronomy 3:26). At the point when God says, "No," we have to state, "OK, Lord. You know best."

2. The circumstance isn't right. God is significantly more keen on timing than He is time. We, then again, are significantly more intrigued by time. We would adore for God to act like a microwave. Fly in the petition ask for and find a quite hot solution in no time. Yet, God isn't that way and doesn't commonly work that way. Frequently our petitions are on track, however the circumstance isn't.

God has work to do in the background to set up all the points of interest for the response to come at the exact time. For example, Abraham and Sarah were guaranteed a child. Presumably, they guaranteed that guarantee in supplication, yet the guarantee didn't happen as expected until almost 30 years after the fact. Was God late? No, He was exactly on schedule.

God does everything admirably (see Mark 7:37). Keep in mind, a definitive objective of supplication isn't simply to find your solution, however to gravitate toward to God. Abraham developed further in confidence and closer to the Lord as He looked out for Him to achieve the appropriate response—his child of wonder birth, little Isaac.

3. The Lord has a superior arrangement. Paul petitioned God for God to eliminate his thistle in the substance, and God stated, "I have a superior arrangement. I will utilize it to spill out My beauty and sparkle all the more splendidly through you." Paul reacted by saying with the impact, "That sounds wonderful. Much obliged to you, Lord."

THE PRAYER THAT GETS AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER

There is a supplication in the Bible that God yearns to reply. It is the petition the supporters supplicated in Acts 4. At the point when they completed that supplication, God promptly replied, and He accentuated His answer with a seismic tremor. It was God's method of saying, "Thank heaven! Presently you are getting it! That is the supplication I need to answer more than everything else!" What did they demand? Strength to express His Word and be the observer He needed them to be. God cherished that supplication, and He aches to answer it today for you and me.

WHAT TO DO?

In your supplication life:

1. Stop requesting those things that He has just said no to. Leave all your supplications alone interspersed with the expressions of Jesus in Gethsemane, "Not my will, but rather Yours be finished."

2. Continue requesting the things that He has said yes to yet have not yet happened. God loves and praises steadiness.

3. Begin requesting Him to give you intensity, certainty and force so you can be the observer He needs you to be.

Be energized as you ask. The God who loves you aches to respond to you. Jesus said in Matthew 7:11, "On the off chance that you, at that point, being shrewd, realize how to give great endowments to your youngsters, the amount more will your Father who is in paradise give what regards the individuals who ask Him!"

Continue imploring!