“Pray pray pray!”…is all that is going through my mind lately. Hearing all kinds of stories about people I know and people I don’t know, not only breaks my heart but it has made me stand in the gap on behalf of them.
This brought me to an interesting topic, “answered prayers”. I know that God is in control of all things and that He can do all things. But what if He choses to do nothing at all? Is He still the same compassionate and loving God that we proclaim He is? Is He still the All Mighty who can do ALL things? Of course He is! God is not what we portray Him to be based on His answers to our prayers. Our small minds can never comprehend the magnitude of the work of His hands.
Now, does God really choose not to answer us? Of course not! God ALWAYS answers prayers. What happens is, we interpret God “not answering” a certain way or in a certain time frame, as an unanswered prayer. This brings me to 2 Corinthians 12 where Paul said, “I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:7-9, NIV). If you read about what Paul went through, starting from chapter 11, you will understand his request. Many of us would not even survive half the things Paul went through. As we can see, God did not choose to answer Paul’s prayer the way he was expecting Him to, instead His answer was, “my GRACE is sufficient”. I know many of us have received this answer from God at some point in our lives – I know I sure have.
Now, let’s just say God chooses not to answer our prayer. Will that be a reason to stop believing? Does that give us the right to get angry at God? We should be very careful that we don’t end up being a generation that only seeks to see the hand of God instead of God himself. The moment you keep on trusting and believing even after that prayer wasn’t answered the way you wanted it to be answered, is when you will see God move in ways you can’t even imagine.
D. Arelis XO