We’ve all been there. Just as the believers of old who used to lay themselves across the altar crying out to God, we know that we”prayed through”, and the answer is on the way. This happened with my mom when she asked the LORD for a son. She knew that she knew.
When she showed the “going home” outfit to a couple of aunts of mine they asked, “What are you going to do if it’s a girl?”
“Well,” she says, “if it’s a girl I guess we’ll have to buy another outfit. But it’s going to be a boy.”
Sure enough it was my brother, and he weighed over 8 lbs., just what she requested so that Dad would be proud — not that he wouldn’t have been otherwise. In hindsight, says she smiling, if she knew what she was asking for, she wouldn’t have requested such a large baby 🙂 .
There are times we hear from the LORD, like I did with Foxy in the post It is Settled.
What about those times when we know that we prayed through … and yet we don’t see the fruition of those prayers? What about those times when we’re so sure we’ve heard from the LORD, and yet the words that dropped in our hearts don’t materialize before our eyes? I admit to having been befuddled during such times.
A friend directed me to this video and it was of great encouragement to me. I hope you will take the time to watch it now.
Wasn’t that encouraging? In those times when I feel like my praying through flopped or that my word from the LORD really wasn’t, doesn’t mean it won’t come to pass. I was empowered thinking that just because I don’t see the expectation to my prayers come the way I think or in the time or fashion that I believed for doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. It very well could have happened for someone else. And just because I continue to wait doesn’t mean that it won’t happen for me. Isn’t it marvelous to think that God is using our personal pain and our prayers in our own battles to be conduits to answer the prayers of others? It removed the mantle of befuddlement and discouragement that tried to cover me and drag me down. Our prayers are effective and mighty to the pulling down of strongholds! (James 5:16) I was jubilant, thinking that even when I do not see what I’m expecting in the fashion or time I’m expecting, someone somewhere is benefiting from my prayers. The how and when I see the answers in my life is up to God. The point is, His intentions toward me are good and in Him all of His promises are Yes and Amen.
If the first video blessed you, you may want to take the time to watch this one as well. In fact, maybe take time to digest the prior content of today’s post before moving forward with this one. Meditate. Pray. Seek the LORD. God is on the move. I don’t know about you, but I want to be in on it. Please join me for believing for the impossible because with God all things are possible.
.Let us not grow weary in well doing, especially in our prayers (Galatians 6:9).
Dear LORD, There are people reading this today, watching these videos, and they may be as discouraged and befuddled as I have been, and afraid to proclaim Your word to them and their expectations. Lets us no longer be discouraged or feel weak and defunct, You are God Almighty and You abide in us. When we do not see what we have heard or believed for in the manner or time we think, continue to let us be encouraged by the thought that our prayers are going forth like waves across the earth and You are answering prayer. You are awesome, mighty, and so wonderful to us. Let us proclaim with confidence today that our faith is the substance of the things we hope for, that we will see those things for which have believed if we do not lose heart. And in the meantime, someone, somewhere, is reaping the benefit of the seeds of our prayers; let us be glad and encouraged by that. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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