Reading Time: 4 minutesPastor Price didn’t mean it in that trite, sanctimonious, ‘Sometimes he says yes, sometimes he says no, sometimes he says wait a while,’ way. He meant God always said “Yes,” to his prayers, God always gave him what he asked for when he prayed. When I heard it I thought, ‘I wish God always answered my prayers.’
Reading Time: 7 minutesJesus was saying that God would give me what I asked for when I prayed, that God would do that for everyone, God would give everyone, what they asked for when they prayed.
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: 4 minutes“God always answers my prayers,” that’s what Pastor Price said and he didn’t mean it in that trite, evangelical, I’m so special, “God answers all prayers sometimes he says yes, sometimes he says no, sometimes he says wait a while,” way, he meant God always gave him what he asked for.
Reading Time: 8 minutesI didn’t know what to make of Jesus’s statement. I didn’t know how to reconcile, “for everyone who asks receives,” with reality. It seemed obvious that it wasn’t true. Was Jesus lying, was he mistaken, were these not really his words, was the Bible not really God’s Word, did these words not mean what they appeared to mean? So I put it on the shelf. From time to time I’d come back to it and try and understand.
Then one day I saw it.
Reading Time: 13 minutesBut Jesus and the Bible talk about answered prayer like it’s a sure thing, a certainty, something that is extremely reliable. Here’s Jesus:
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s how I like to think about it. I imagine myself going before the throne of God to make a request, to submit my prayer. I’m in an antechamber outside the throne room, and there’s a doorway leading in to God’s throne room. As I look
Reading Time: 2 minutesI love this quote about prayer from Charles Finney, American Evangelist of the mid 1800s. Maybe I love because he too was a lawyer before he was a preacher. I love it so much I’m sure I must have posted it before, but here it goes again.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is part four of, God Wants To Answer Your Prayers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMs. Connie always experienced extreme pain in her ear when flying. When the plane would begin its descent she’d feel like she was being stabbed in the ear with an ice pick. Now, because her husband had changed jobs, she was going to be doing a lot more flying . Every couple of weeks she’d be flying back and forth, from home to San Francisco.