This past Monday brought two answers to very specific prayers I have had. I happened to be out and about getting groceries when I received the two phone calls. By the second call, I was making my way through the store in tears. It was a good thing I had put most of the needed items in my cart, I couldn't think straight anymore! I was talking with my Heavenly Father in the grocery store...thanking and praising Him for working in these two situations. He knew before we even asked. I knew He knew. He knew I knew...but He still wanted me to come to Him!
John 16...Jesus was talking with and teaching His disciples...
"Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him."
I appreciate how Oswald Chambers explains and challenges the reader in My Utmost For His Highest: "Then why ask? The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray because we want answers, we will get huffed with God. The answers come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with Our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove God answers prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God’s grace.
"I say not that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you." Have you reached such an intimacy with God that the Lord Jesus Christ’s life of prayer is the only explanation of your life of prayer? Has Our Lord’s vicarious life become your vital life? "At that day" you will be so identified with Jesus that there will be no distinction.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to fix the blame on someone else. That is always a snare of Satan. You will find there is a reason which is a deep instruction to you, not to anyone else."
My tears were once again a result of the realization that God hears every word, thought, and groan of His children who spend time at His feet learning and obeying.
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