Victory In Christ

Often, when I’m praying for people on the phone, they would ask me why after prayer they didn’t yet received the answer. Maybe someone that their church prayed for them, maybe someone on a national telephone prayer line, maybe it was me through the ministry I represent who previously prayed for them. At any rate, the person had not yet received the desired answer — healing, or provision, or a prodigal son returning, or family salvation. 

I’ve heard this a lot. But do you know what? It doesn’t have to do with a lack of faith on anyone’s part.  I use the faith God has given me. I pray according to the Word of God. I release my faith. I join the person on the phone in prayer agreement. We’ve done our part. Now we trust the Lord to hear and answer. If we don’t get what we ask for, we don’t get mad at God. Our faith isn’t diminished. We continue to ask, seek, and knock and believe that the door will be opened. If it doesn’t happen that way, we know that God is our Sovereign Lord.  

Folks, we have so much for which to be grateful to God. We are abundantly blessed. I can name five or more serious situations over the years that I have prayed for, and I didn’t receive the answer in a timely way, or even not at all.  God has given me the ability to trust Him in all things. I quiet my soul and resist anxious thoughts.

Matthew 18:19 is true, and Romans 8:28 is also true.  We pray believing, then we rest in the Lord and wait upon Him. May His will be done! 

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret or become anxious with worry” ~~ Psalm 37:7.

“he moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good” ~~ Romans 8:27-28 (MSG).