Hearing the Answers

Today’s message from ‘My Utmost for His Highest’ provides some interesting thoughts on prayer which I have culled from the message.

I think there are several key points about prayer to understand. I think your acceptance of each or all the points depends on the maturity of your relationship with God:

- We pray selfishly much of the time
- God doesn’t always give us the answer to prayer that we want
- Our response to God’s answer is an indicator of our spiritual maturity
- Our real purpose in being on earth is to show God’s grace to others
- Don’t fall into Satan’s trap
- Let God use you. He is molding you for His purposes

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‘If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason— God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.’

‘My Utmost for His Highest’ has been a great devotional for me. See the whole message for August 6 at:

http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php