This is the thought that is running in my mind since last few weeks. Yea...!! The thing is I knw I have a God who listens to my prayers and a God who talks to people... a God who answers prayers... a God who never forsakes me... a God who has come to save me... a God who loves me more than any one else... a God who died so that I may live :) But then where is the problem????
I have always prayed to God… but I have never waited upon him... which is the most important thing...neither did I anticipate any reply… I never searched for God’s reply or maybe I dint realize in what way God was trying to contact me.
The scripture says...“If people can’t see what God is doing they stumble all over themselves, but when they attend to what God reveals they are most blessed.” Proverbs 29:18
God always answers our prayers...He is our Father in Heaven, and we are His children…He loves us unconditionally….I knew this but always had a thought that… why does it seem that God ignores so many prayers? And some times it makes me think… if He already knows what I want, why is prayer necessary in the first place?...The truth is God never ignores anybody’s prayers… yea anybody’s….!! The other day, my friend said...God reply’s to our prayers… yea God talks to us through situations… God talks to us through people… God talks to us through bible… and the best part is God TALKS to us…! as we talk to our friends on phone… :) then I had that feeling of ignoring his reply many times... & then my friend said...We need to wait on the Lord to know his will…because unless its Lord’s will, we cannot be successful… There are many things that happen without God’s will… this is because we never wait on him to know his will… When we are doing anything that is according to His will… there will be no failures, hindrance or objections…because God will never leave us nor forsake us… so He is there till the end of it…!! So remember whenever there is an objection…PRAY to God to know his will… Hmmm, that sounds a lot like my prayer life…the truth is that my heavenly Father is telling me to, wait patiently on Him But it’s so hard to wait ! …I don’t want to wait !!…… I want answers now! …I kept thinking about it… becoming more and more curious… But God tells us to “wait patiently”. To do this we must “be brave and courageous.”…and most important we need to have faith…As all these thoughts kept me busy this morning… I was reading a book called “Faith that overcomes the world” which my friend gave it to me… while I was reading this, I felt God was talking to me through the book… What an awesome God…!! True…!! Yesterday night I was feeling… Lord..! How are things going to happen??? And this book tells me…“You do not always need to know how it happens, only that it will..!” while I was reading this book… I could really feel that God was talking to me … it was addressing all my questions… thoughts… and doubts off course… To understand what I am saying… everyone needs to know what faith is…This book explains it so wonderfully… and now I realize the greatest essence of faith… Its not about faith in our own ability… or our own mind… Its about FAITH in God and His ability. Faith is not merely thinking positively or trying to convince yourself that sooner or later things will get better... So what is faith?? Hebrews 11:1 says “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is not a lose assumption or something about which we are not sure… Faith is substance and an evidence...
Faith is not having a generally optimistic attitude about something you are hoping will work out.
Faith is conviction. It is something about which you are fully convinced and from which you cannot be moved, no matter how things around you may appear. Your circumstances may be completely contradictory, but faith is the evidence of things not seen.
Matthew 21:22 says…” and all things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive”
Now if this is what faith can produce, and if Satan is our adversary in this world, it is not surprising that he attacks faith and the teaching of faith aggressively. He is supreme enemy of faith and is opposed to any sort of divine intervention in this world. When you receive an answer to prayer, God is glorified and His presence is made manifest or visible, in your life for others to see. Satan attacks your faith because he does not want the presence of God to be manifested.
James 4:7 says "resist the devil and he will flee from you."
The enemy knows that as soon as faith becomes steadfast conviction in your heart he will have to flee. However he would like to keep you from knowing this.
Faith then is a heartfelt belief in God which comes from God himself. With out knowing God, it is impossible to have faith in Him, because faith trusts in, relies on and expects every good thing from Him. But if you don’t know how God thinks and acts, you will not know what to expect form Him.
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