"For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God though us."
11 Corinthians 2:20
There are times when we pray and still not get answers. I think you will agree with me that this is a common occurrence in many's prayer life. This may happen more often in one's life that we conclude that it may not be God's will to give us our petitions. We come up with a number of reasons to justify our barrenness.
It doesn't matter how many times we have failed in our prayers; all the promises of God are yes and amen. God is saying "yes" to everyone who presents his petition to Him for His promises. God never say no to what He has promised. In other words, God never track back on His promises. WHPIWHG. What He promise is what He gives.
God does not answer our prayers because we sounded emotional or desperate enough when we prayed. It doesn't matter how we sound. Our emotions don't add to anything with God. We may cry and disfigure our faces but it does not make any difference with God. God does not want us to act our feelings; He knows our feelings already.
We don't get audience with God just because we are ugly enough in prayer or loud enough to scare Him. Some people think if they raise their voices high enough God will stop every thing and every angel in heaven and let every one rush to the "commotion" some of us make when we pray.
This is the first trick we learned when we first arrived on this earth. We cried when we needed attention; we cried when we needed some food. We would also cry when we felt insecure. In accounting, when we record some transactions and a page is full, we do what is called "carry over." We carry over the totals and reflect them as "brought forward" in the next page. Have you realized how some of us carried over the crying skill from childhood. The skill worked on our mothers and we think it will also work with God.
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Am I saying it is wrong to cry when we pray? Certainly not. Many people in the bible cried when they were praying. A lot are still doing the same today. There is no problem crying when in prayer as long as it is not used to attempt to arrest God's attention.
What moves God to answer prayers? There are two things that will sure move God;
- His word. God respects His word. He says His word is like rain that will never come down on earth without leaving evident results. Isaiah 55:10-11. He says He watches His word to perform it. Jeremiah 1:12
- Faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6. Faith compels God to say amen to His promises vocalized into prayer by man. How shall we put it? Faith makes God say amen to a prayer of faith.
