Thoughts on Doubts, Fears, Trust and Prayer
I heard someone say one time that if we don’t trust God we trust ourselves. We are not capable of putting complete trust in ourselves, because we make mistakes, so if we don’t trust God we will have doubts and fears. There’s a song that says,” Do your best and leave God the rest.” God knows what we are capable of and doesn’t ask any more of us then what we can handle. Satan will try to get us to go down any other road but the right road. We need to follow and trust God and let him lead us and guide us down that right road. “He will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” When you feel the most fearful and alone is when God carries his children. God wants us to trust Him and He wants us to know that He is there whenever we need Him. If we were self-sufficient and never fearful and doubtless we wouldn’t call on God for help. God wants us to lean on him. When we are weak he is strong. He can use us and we will be a brighter witness for Him when our will and trust is completely in Him. Here's another inspiration of mine I just came across.
(title)How Prayer Works
First, when we pray seeking God's will first, He rearranges our priorities to mesh with His. While we may think receiving a large sum of money from a donor is the best way to get out of debt, He may have other plans. He may want us to work hard, maybe even get a second job, to pull ourselves out of debt. He may want to teach us some valuable lessons through the process that we would've never learned if the money just came out of nowhere. The point here is that God never tells us a method for answering our prayers, because often our prayers aren't in accordance with His will. His answers include as many no's and maybe's as they do yes' and wait's. Our goal when praying should always be to seek His will and leave the results to us.
Second, when praying with His will as our priority, He uses our surrender to reveal His desires. Basically, He changes our desires to His. When we pray with His perspective, suddenly the things we thought were important aren't anymore. Since He never reveals to us beforehand how He answers prayer, we cease worrying about it. If it mattered He would tell us. Instead, He deliberately chooses not to tell us how He will answer prayers because it forces us to seek Him first, trust Him, and rely on Him. Knowing how He'd answer prayer would render prayer worthless because it wouldn't require faith.
If our requests reflect His will, His answer will be yes, though not always in a form we expect.
(title)How Prayer Works
First, when we pray seeking God's will first, He rearranges our priorities to mesh with His. While we may think receiving a large sum of money from a donor is the best way to get out of debt, He may have other plans. He may want us to work hard, maybe even get a second job, to pull ourselves out of debt. He may want to teach us some valuable lessons through the process that we would've never learned if the money just came out of nowhere. The point here is that God never tells us a method for answering our prayers, because often our prayers aren't in accordance with His will. His answers include as many no's and maybe's as they do yes' and wait's. Our goal when praying should always be to seek His will and leave the results to us.
Second, when praying with His will as our priority, He uses our surrender to reveal His desires. Basically, He changes our desires to His. When we pray with His perspective, suddenly the things we thought were important aren't anymore. Since He never reveals to us beforehand how He answers prayer, we cease worrying about it. If it mattered He would tell us. Instead, He deliberately chooses not to tell us how He will answer prayers because it forces us to seek Him first, trust Him, and rely on Him. Knowing how He'd answer prayer would render prayer worthless because it wouldn't require faith.
If our requests reflect His will, His answer will be yes, though not always in a form we expect.
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