We pray to God with the faith that he will hear our prayer. Part of our faith is that God will not only hear our prayer but will also answer our prayer. There are verses in the Bible that attest to God answering our prayers. We read in Matthew’s Gospel (21:22) that if a prayer is said in faith, then we will receive whatever is asked for. It is through our faith that there is the hope that God will answer our prayer.
I say hope because when we pray, our prayer usually includes the answer we desire. When sick, we ask for healing. When there is a problem, we ask God for a certain outcome. Our hope is that God will not only answer our prayer but in the way we feel it should be answered. We may not be able to see God’s answer to our prayer due to our own expectations. The outcome is not we are praying for. This may cause us to feel as if God has not answered our prayer.
God is love; he created us out of love and therefore can only act out of love. In the Gospel of Luke (11:11) we read of the father who would not give his son a snake when he asks for a fish. God our father can only answer our prayers in a loving way. God is active in our lives but we may not be aware of it at that moment. Sometimes we can only see the love of God when we look back in time, after we have stripped away all of our own expectations.
There will be times thought that we will never fully understand or recognize how God has answered our prayers. Know that it is given and is given out of love. It is up to us to accept God’s love in the form he desires, to grow with it spiritually and to respond accordingly.
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