Thursday Ramblings....

Why?
Why is it that someone comes for prayer.

Makes a specific request that they want you to pray.

You pray.

As you pray you look into their eyes and you see and know that they have asked with their mouth but not with their heart.
You pray.

God does not answer the prayer you prayed.

Days go by.

Weeks go by.

Months go by.

You do not see an answer. The person you prayed for does not see an answer.

Yet you know God is God and is sovereign in his reign and rule.

Questions I struggle with.

A.) Maybe the person is just going through the motions and doesn't really want or expect an answer to their prayer.

B.) Maybe it's tied to the free will of each individual. They say they want one thing yet their will over rules and blocks what God is trying to do.

1.) I'm not sure in this case that I actually like the term free will.

II Corinthians 4:4 reads: Satan, the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those

who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that

is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory

of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God

2.) Their minds are blinded. It is their unbelief that creates the blindness. It takes the

power and Spirit of God to break the blindness created by Satan in conjunction

with their unbelief.

3.) Only God possesses such a power that can dislodge the false reality and belief

system that covers everyone who does not believe God.

Maybe my part in all of this is found in the first verse of Second Corinthians, Chapter Four.

"And so, since God in his mercy has given us this wonderful ministry, WE NEVER GIVE UP."

We continue to pray even when we don't understand the "whys" and the "why nots" of the situations we are called to pray for.
We continue to cry out to the Father heart of God for those trapped in darkness.
We stand between those who are lost and hell itself.

We are the instruments used by God for his kingdom purpose here on earth.

II Corinthians 5:7 --- We live and walk by faith....not by sight (or our other senses).

Our lives are governed and directed by a higher authority, God himself.

I want to learn how to pray more effectively, and by that, I mean, to be able to hear God as I pray and only say back to him the very things he is stirring my heart to pray for.

I still have a lot to learn....

Thank you, Lord, for your patience.

God on all of you.............

mb