Meditate On
The Lord...hears the prayer of the
righteous.
Proverbs 15:29
God
Hears Your Prayers
In her sadness and anguish, 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)?
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH PRINCE
