Prayer is our direct line to our Lord and Savior. It is our way to communicate with him. Our way to talk with him. Prayer affords us the opportunity to bring our concerns to God. It’s the same for bringing our celebrations to God. He likes to hear those too. Sometimes, we have direct/exact prayer requests. Where we lift up a person by name. Lift up their needs. And sometimes, it’s easy to get caught up in saying a prayer just to say it. To say a prayer in passing. I think that is because we are busy to the point we don’t pray believing it will be answered. We just pray to get it done. But, I believe God answers all of our prayers. Sometimes his answers are so visible and obvious, there is no way of denying what he is telling us. We can see his answer. Other times, he answers them, by simply not acting on them. That is his way of telling us…not getting what we are praying for is best for us.
Last year we put out a prayer request that was answered very quickly. There is strength in numbers. We know this. And that is with prayer as well. For those of you that didn’t see it, here is part of the request: “Prayer Warriors! Time to mount up! Dieter Rademacher, Pastor at Community Fellowship of Christians Church, has a possible brain clot. He is in ICU at the moment. Undergoing evaluations…Please lift him up in prayer. Lift his family up as well. And lift the doctors up. Pray that they can make the best decisions for him.”
A little while later, we put this update out: “Scotty, Please thank your Prayer Warriors! Within an hour, we had people all over the world praying for Dieter and the doctors. We have good news! He is alert and is acting like his wonderful self! The doctors have him on a drip medicine to “blast” the blood clot away.” Simply amazing. We have an awesome God. We have an awesome God that hears our prayers. We have an awesome God that answers our prayers. We have an awesome God that loves us. So take time to pray. Make time to pray. And watch God work.
