How many times in your life have you simply wondered if God is listening and hears your prayers? And... if He is hearing them - why are you not getting the answers you want? For some reason, this is one of the hardest concepts for me to grasp at times. Although, I know that He hears my prayers - there are times when it is really hard to figure out what it is I am supposed to be doing. I have always said, "maybe he should just burn the answer in my front yard - then i will know exactly what I'm supposed to do." A couple of months ago I decided to begin keeping a prayer journal, and then as my prayers were answered - I would highlight them. Y'all - you would not believe how many answered prayers there really are!! I knew God answers prayers - but to see them answered and have documentation in black and white is absolutely amazing! In 1 John 5: 14-15 we are told, "And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him." I think so many times we get caught up in demanding what we want from God, that we forget it is about what He wants for us.
Seriously... what would our lives all be like if we constantly strive to do what He wants us to do - instead of what we want to do? I'm pretty sure that my life would be different. As I look through my prayer journal, I can see that He has given me answers... yes or no. And, for the ones that are still waiting to be highlighted - well, it's not that He has forgotten about them. Maybe...it is that He is using these things to teach me patience (which I need a lot of) and reminding me to put my trust in Him.
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