Reading Time: 7 minutesHere’s how I like to think about it. I imagine going before God to make a request, to submit my prayer. I’m waiting for my turn in an antechamber outside God’s throne room, there’s a tall, wide, doorway open to God’s throne room. As I look through the doorway I see God’s throne a ways off. Then I see, carved into the stone above the doorway, these words,
“Ask and it shall be given you… for everyone that asketh receiveth.”
Reading Time: 7 minutesMost of us, kind of, have the idea that God’s willingness is the main obstacle to answered prayer. We think that if only God wanted to, He would answer. We think that if we can just figure out how to get God to want to, then we’ll have it made. We end up figuring that if we were good enough, or if God liked us enough, or our request was important enough or spiritual enough, then that would cause God to want to give us what we ask. So we try to figure out how to be good enough, or how to get God to like us enough, or how to make our request seem important or spiritual enough, so that God will want to grant our petition.
But, here’s the great secret of answered prayer…