Prayer Perspective

PRAYER PERSPECTIVE

"I love the Lord because He hath heard my voice and my supplications."
Psalm 116:1

I needed this perspective this morning in regards to prayer. Maybe you do to. It is written by the great missionary, Amy Carmichael.

"Sometimes people speak of God having answered their prayers, but what they mean is that He answered according to their desire and does something about which they are glad. If he does something different they say sadly, 'He has not answered.' All this is a mistake.

Prayer is ALWAYS heard if the one who prays comes to the Father in the NAME of our Lord Jesus. 'I love the Lord, because He hath heard' can be our word always, and also that other word, 'This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears
us: and if we know that He hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desire of Him.'

If we love Him, our real prayer is that His perfect will may be done, whatever the words are, and so it is certain that we have the petition even before we see it granted. The form the answer takes does not affect the fact.

I know sometimes we do not see how the thing granted is all that we desire. And yet it is! For after all, what the deepest in us wanted was not for our own natural will, but the will of the Father. So what is given is our heart's desire; He hath not witholden the request of our lips. But God always answers us in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul. In hours of confusion I can remember this!" - Amy Carmichael (His Victorious Indwelling - Zondervan)

Good words for me today! I hope they will speak to your heart too.

Great Quote: You cannot expect and answer from God unless YOUR WILL is gone. You shut out your answers to prayer because you have a will about the thing for which you are praying." Edward Dennett