Do you believe it’s possible?

• By candidasullivan
• August 9, 2024
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I’ve prayed a lot of dead prayers throughout my life. Prayers without faith, love, patience, and outside of God’s will do not reach God. So many times, I’ve filled the trenches around my prayers with tears of defeat, doubt, selfishness, and fear. I’ve asked God to change my circumstances without believing He could or would change them.

So many times, I have confined God to certain limitations that I created for Him with my limited knowledge, faith, and experiences. I believed God couldn’t do it because I had never witnessed it before.

In a state of doubt, I couldn’t get to where I needed to be to honestly ask God for what I needed. I asked for things I deemed possible and became discouraged when God answered those prayers.

When I was in severe pain, I often asked God to help me make it through the day. I asked Him to ease my pain. But it took me a long time to ask Him to heal and help me overcome it all. That’s what my heart truly desired.

Sometimes, it takes a while to develop the faith needed to pray, and it takes time for God to answer our prayers because we have things to learn first. But this waiting period is not in vain. It’s a time for us to grow in faith and trust and to learn to appreciate the blessings when they come. If God answered us in our unbelief, we wouldn’t truly appreciate the blessing or recognize that He cared for us. We might dismiss it as a coincidence.

But when we go through various stages of the trial and fill the trenches with our tears of growth, God will answer with fire. He will give us the desires of our hearts.

Belief and trust are the cornerstones of prayer. We must believe that God can do it, trust Him to do it, and then be utterly amazed as we watch Him take care of it all. Sometimes, God’s blessings seem so effortless that we can miss them. But when we truly believe and trust, we can see His hand at work in every aspect of our lives.

Other times, our answered prayers can seem all wrong. I remember lying on the floor in terrible pain, wondering why God allowed me to fall. I had been praying for healing, not more pain.

It took, however, a fall and an injured elbow to get me to the hand surgeon who could give me a thumb. The thumb helped me to use both hands to help the right side of my body to heal. I can see how God worked it all out for me, but it seemed like a terrible mistake during those painful moments.

Sometimes, it gets worse before it gets better. If we ask, God will help our unbelief. He will get us to a place where we can pray beautiful, spirit-filled prayers. Those are the prayers that we can praise Him ahead of time because we have enough faith to believe that God will help us.

It would break our hearts to see how we limit ourselves. How often do we settle for the crumbs when God wants to give us a feast?

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