Prayer: God’s Will

We can pray for anything in faith, using God’s will and promises as guidance.

1Jhn5:14-15        This is the remarkable degree of confidence which we as believers are entitled to have before Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, consistent with His plan and purpose, He hears us. And if we know for a fact, as indeed we do, that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

So how come there are times where we pray for something, but we don’t see it? For instance, God’s promise is to provide for us, but I don’t experience it in my life?

Before we pray for a situation or a person, we first need to pray to God and ask what we need to pray for, what is His will and purpose for this situation. Our Understanding of what should be done may be different from what God had planned.

Jer7:16     Therefore, do not pray for this people of Judah or lift up a cry or entreaty for them or make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.

God may tell you not to pray…

I asked God to be clearer to me as to when and what I should pray. Sometimes I think my own thoughts and expectations of a situation influence my reasoning about what should happen. God answered me that the closer I walk with Him, the stronger my relationship is with Him, the more I will know what to pray for. The better I will hear His voice and not my own.

Jhn10:4        When he has brought all his own sheep outside, he walks on ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice and recognize his call.

Rom12:2      And do not be conformed to this world any longer with is superficial values and customs, but be transformed and progressively changed as you mature spiritually by the renewing of your mind, focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes, so that you may prove for yourselves what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect in His plan and purpose for you.

As your relationship with God grow, you will have a better understanding of God’s heart and what to pray for. God wants us to pray for one another. But ultimately, God wants us to know that He hears our prayers. That He can make a difference. And that He wants to make a difference. We need to believe.