I started praying concerning something a few years ago. This desire has been my major prayer topic and each day, I pray about it and though it has not come to pass, I believe that God is “cooking something sweet for me!” Therefore, I am still trusting on! I have found that it is easier to have doubt when our prayers do not come with the expectation we have. It is so possible to listen to different voices when it seems like God is silent. For me, my take is, Pray Until Something Good Happens (PUSGH). Since YES, NO and WAIT are all potential answers to our requests, I just keep pressing on in prayer until my case is dealt with by God. If you have lost your motivation for prayer, read Luke 18: 1-8 and cultivate a persistence for prayer.
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:11)
Our Father in Heaven gives good gifts. Jesus told us in Matthew 7:7-11, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” God has good gifts for those who are persistent in asking, seeking and knocking. However, just as I will not but a riffle as a gift for my child, God will definitely not give us gifts that will cause us to lose our salvation.
Therefore if you have asked, sought and knocked and it is still not coming, you do not need to stop praying. Daniel prayed but the angel sent to deliver the response was intercepted by the prince of Persia until another angel went to help him: “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia” (Daniel 10:12-13). Imagine if Daniel had given up! When we understand that our Father gives good gifts, our song should be:
“Back when I was a kid I thought gifts from God only came from church But the more that I love, the more I learn, it’s not always the way it works Sometimes you don’t see it till your looking back When ya didn’t get what ya thought ya had to have Cus He had a bigger plan than the one you had Yours didn’t work out and aren’t you glad
When you take a look around it ain’t hard to find Everybody’s got things that money can’t buy If the ones ya love are sitting right beside ya Then I’d say ya got a lot The best things in life are straight from His hands Like raising kids on a piece of land A little piece of mind when the day is done Where ya think that comes from That’s gifts from God
It makes ya thankful for the hills that we climb For the waves that we ride For the lows and the highs For the wrongs made right For the songs we sing For the dreams we dream Makes ya thankful for everything
Hallelujah every day’s a gift from God Hallelujah every day’s a gift Hallelujah every day’s a gift from God Hallelujah every day’s a gift
Hallelujah Where ya think that comes from That’s gifts from God Hallelujah You know that’s gifts from God Hallelujah Every day’s a gift from God Hallelujah Every day’s a gift Gifts from God” (Chris Tomlin, Sparrow Records 2020)
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