Thoughts for another day

Jan. 29, 2013.

Today's verse: Mark 11:24. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Reading our Scripture today raises an important question in my mind:  How much of what I pray for do I believe?  This question makes me stop and think and ask myself if I really believe what I pray for, particularly if it will be granted.  Really, this is a question that shakes you from inside.  Were I to ask it to you, you might be a little miffed and retort, ‘are you suggesting that I don’t believe what I pray for?’  And you would be right because if one sincerely prays then every word of prayer would be with meaning and of a belief that it will be heard but do we pray like that?

Knowing what really happens when we pray, particularly with me, I realise that at most times, I pray with hardly any conviction that what I pray for, will be granted.  But, notwithstanding how I pray, I will yet blame God for not having received what I had asked for and it makes me think, what do we take God for?  Someone who is at our beck and call and Who must answer when we ask; even if we’ve asked without any belief?   Now it may also be possible that you’ve prayed with all belief but the prayer is not answered, well, in that case it’s best we wait on Him but in most other cases it can be safely taken that our heart wasn’t where our mouth was when we prayed.  And it is this bland prayer life which leads to an absence of miracles in our lives.

Jesus tells us today that whatever we ask for in prayer, we must believe that we’ve received it and it will be ours.  You see our God is all-powerful and He listens to our prayer, even if it is a prayer for an impossibility – let’s say, we ask God for a financial blessing and I’m talking of something as large as a 100-million dollar benefit.  Do you think God who created life will find it difficult to grant that?  No He won’t, but He can certainly ask, did you prayer for it like as if you wanted 100 dollars?  My friend take Jesus’ Word to heart today and believe that he will grant your prayer, no matter what it is for He is able and He loves us enough to do it for us.