Not Finished Yet - I Am a Work In Progress - Be Patient With Me

There are many prayers offered to God and we often wonder what kind of prayers does God really answers? What are the secrets of answered prayers? What gets God attention?

I know many of you pray. Some of you - when tragedy hits close will cry a “please help God”, others when something excited is happening in your life will say a “thank you God” and some of you are praying daily. It’s part of your religious routine: morning prayer, before meal prayer, evening prayer … you do it without thinking. And some of you are prayer warriors who can spend countless hours on their knees to pray for others and themselves with sincere hearts and expectations from God.

I personally pray a lot. I pray short prayers, when someone asks to pray for them I do it right away. Over the years I learned that we ought to ask, for everything … because Jesus said: ask and it will be given to you, but we ought to ask according to God’s will. Jesus showed us this when in the Gethsemane he was able to say: Father, not my will, but yours … these are some of the hardest words we can say, if we really mean them. It’s not easy to give up our will, totally surrender and unconditionally trust God - but it’s possible. It will never be easy, but as you get to know God better and better you will know that he wants your very best and it will be easier to give up control over your life.

Yet in my journey with God, I noticed that God will always answer those prayers that come from heart and they are longings to know Him more, prayers which will help us grow in faith.

I don’t know about you, but reading the Bible I found many bold, sometimes almost crazy prayers. Here is Joshua for example – who in his right mind would have the guts and the boldness to ask God to hold the sun still until they defeat their enemies?

On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said, Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon. So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and did not set as on a normal day - Joshua 10:12-13

I was reading and wondering how many of us, called the children of God had ever asked God for any kind of crazy, totally unthinkable things?

How often we have these, I call them “just prayers", like:”God could you just provide enough for paying this month’s bill?” “God, could you just please forgive my sins”, “God just help me pass the class”, “God just …. Fill in the blank”. The reason we pray “just” prayers is because we think less of God then what he is capable. (Actually what is what he is no capable?) Do we really believe that He is the creator of the universe, the one who said – Let it be – and suddenly there it was: the stars in the sky, the sun, the moon, the oceans, the rivers, the mountain, it was all he said – Let it be – Do we believe that our God is a Mighty God, he is the Lord of Heavens Armies???

I often speculate how we’ll react in Heaven when we’ll find out that we missed so much, just because we never had the boldness to ask amazing things.

If you thing about God as a small God, a God who is just enough to go by – you will pray accordingly.

If you believe that God is for you, and he is more than able to grant your heart’s desires – you will pray accordingly.