HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF GOD TRULY HEARD YOUR PRAYER? Do you ever feel like you’re just talking to yourself, as if there is no one there and you have no idea if you’ve really been heard by God? You don’t know if you should just let the whole matter go or keep trying. You’ve read the Bible and go to church but still don’t know if God hears your prayers. You wonder if you’re supposed to FEEL something or are you just mumbling a lot of words. Let me say firstly that God has heard your prayers and all heaven delights that you have turned to Him. You can be assured that you are a Christian and that God dwells within you BY HIS SPIRIT. You may not FEEL that way but rest assured, that is the case. You see FEELINGS OF ANY KIND CAN BE DECEPTIVE and sometimes we have to move beyond our feelings to the FACTS of a matter. This is why the Bible is so important -it tells you what God has done and what the implications of that is. Most importantly it tells us of His promises and His faithfulness in keeping those promises. One such promise is John 3: 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” That is God’s promise. If you have done that then you can be assured that you have been saved. Another one is: If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. [1 John 1:9] If you have prayed for forgiveness of sins, and TRUST IN the promise of Gods word that you have been forgiven, then you are a born again child of God and He hears you prayers. You see the real Christian experience is NOT A FEELING but a RELATIONSHIP based on FAITH/TRUST. Here are three points to ponder: 1. Faith is always “IN” something, you just don’t ‘have faith’, you have faith IN something. You can have faith IN the train timetable, IN a particular politician, IN a restaurant, IN your spouse, IN a chair - all of us have faith IN all sorts of things. Christians are people that have faith IN JESUS. This is what defines a Christian. 2. Faith is always “FOR” something, it looks forward to an outcome. Your faith IN the train timetable may be FOR accurate information about when a train will arrive, or faith IN a restaurant FOR good food, or faith IN a chair to hold you up when you sit on it, etc. A Christian has faith IN Jesus as the one who is able to save us from Sin and Death, and as the ONE whom God has appointed as LORD OF ALL. 3. Faith does not always have the same feeling associated with it, and may sometimes not feel like anything at all. Think about what having faith in a chair feels like…sometimes, say after a long walk, it feels great to look forward to sitting in that chair, but if we have put on a bit of weight then sitting down in the chair, we may be accompanied by some anxiety or some doubt. There will also be some times when we sit down in the chair without even really thinking about it or feeling anything. It is a similar thing with having faith in Jesus - the evidence that you are a Christian is that you have put your FAITH AND TRUST IN JESUS, and not that you experience any particular feeling. Praying to God in the name of Jesus is an exercise of faith IN God through the shed blood of His son, Jesus Christ (much in the same way that ‘sitting’ is an exercise of faith in a chair). You don’t need to concern yourself with how it ‘feels.’ The real question is do you trust Jesus? Do you trust that Jesus is able to hear your prayers, do you trust that Jesus is able to answer your prayers, and do you trust that Jesus loves you? So the question lies in whether or not you TRUST God rather than IF He heard your prayer. Let me encourage you to READ THE BIBLE to learn the promises of God, KEEP PRAYING, and make sure youre involved in a BIBLE TEACHING/BIBLE BELIEVING church that will encourage you in these things. God bless
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:27:12 +0000
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