Meditate On
The Lord…hears
the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:29
God Hears Your Prayers
In her sadness
and aguish, a barren woman went to the temple of God to pray. Weeping, she
poured out her heart to God. She didn’t pray audibly, moving only her lips as
she talked to God about her request for a child.
When the
temple’s priest saw the way she prayed, he assumed that she was drunk and
promptly admonished her. She had to tell him that she wasn’t drunk, and that in
her sorrow she was pouring out her soul to God.
The priest then
told her, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you
have asked of Him” (1 Samuel 1:17). It wasn’t long after that this woman,
Hannah, conceived and bore a son, Samuel. Inaudible or soft as her prayer was,
God heard it and fulfilled her wish for a child!
Beloved, it’s not
about how long or short, how loudly or softly you pray, but who you pray to
that matters. Today, when you pray, be conscious that you have the ear and
attention of your heavenly Father, who so loves you and hears your prayers
because you are righteous in Christ. And if He loves you enough to give you
heaven’s best—Jesus, how will He not with Jesus also freely give you all things
(Romans 8:32)?
BLESSING
JOSEPH PRINCE
