Do you ever
feel like God isn’t listening because you aren’t getting your desired answers
to prayer? Did you ever think about the fact that Jesus didn’t get a “yes”
answer to all His prayers, either, even though God definitely heard Him?
Hebrews 5:7-9 7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up
prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who
could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent
submission. 8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he
suffered 9 and, once made
perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
God heard
Jesus’ prayer to spare Him from death:
Matthew 26:39a Going
a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.”
God answered Jesus’ prayer “no.” However, Jesus
acknowledged that might be the answer and ended His prayer praying for God’s
will to be done instead of His own. (Matthew 26:39b “Yet not as I will, but as you will.”)
Just because we
don’t get the answer we want doesn’t mean God isn’t listening. He has a better
and more perfect plan, even if we don’t understand it at the time. (Like God’s
answer “no” to Joe and I wanting children early on in our marriage, but later providing
them almost a decade into marriage in a very unique way.)
What other “No”
from God do you and I need to accept? Let’s submit to His will, like Jesus did.
When we pray for His will to be done, the answer is always “yes!”
Alice
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