25 May
2015 Unanswered Prayers – by Dorothy Callies
This
morning on May 24th somehow I picked up one page from devotional
book, Our Daily Bread from RBC Ministries I read from June 10, 2012. I was
surprised and impressed because I realized that God had read my heart’s struggle about the
unanswered prayers. I thought about some of the others who faced the same
thing. I start praying for them "not to lose heart."
What this
means to me? God had me picked up one of the collections
from the little plastic box and God wants to share His Word of encouragement, “… that men always ought to pray and not
lose heart” (Luke 18:1). I felt like you need to hear this as well as I do
need to hear this myself. Thank you, Lord! You are awesome! You do care! Help
us not to lose hope and not to lose heart!
Anne Cetas
wrote this: Unanswered. [Jesus] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought
to pray and not to lose heart. –Luke 18:1. “One of my biggest struggles is unanswered
prayer. Maybe you can relate. You ask God to rescue a friend from addiction, to
grant salvation to a loved one, to heal a sick child, to mend a relationship. All
these things you think must be God’s will. For years you pray. But you hear
nothing back from him and you see no results.
You remind
the Lord that He’s powerful. That your request is a good thing. You plead. You
wait. You doubt—maybe He doesn’t hear you, or maybe He isn’t so powerful after
all. You quit asking—for days or months. You feel guilty about doubting. You
remember that God wants you to take your needs to Him, and you tell Him your
requests again.
We may
feel we’re like the persistent widow in Jesus’ parable recorded in Luke 18. She
keeps coming to the judge, badgering him and trying to wear him down so he’ll
give in. But we know that God is kinder and more powerful than the judge in the
parable. We trust Him, for He is good and wise and sovereign. We remember that
Jesus said we “always ought to pray and not lose heart” (v.1).
So we
asked Him, “Summon Your power, O God; show us Your strength, O God, as You have
done before” (Ps. 68:28 NIV). And then we trust Him . . . and wait.
Pray on, then, child of God, pray on;
This is your duty and your task.
To God the answering belongs;
Yours is the simpler part—to ask. –Chisholm
Delay
is not denial so keep praying.
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