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“Prayer Reaches Almighty
Yeshua! (P.R.A.Y)”
Ramesh C. Reddy
Publisher SCRIPTURE:
"I love the Lord because he hears my prayers and answers them.
Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I
breathe!" (Psalm 116:1-2)
What stuck out to me was
the Psalmist saying, 'I love the Lord'
1. Because He hears my prayers
2.
Because He answers them
3.
Because He bends down and listens,
I will pray as long as I breathe!
IMPLICATIONS:
What is exciting
to know is that He is the same Lord that I can pray too. I can be
confident that He hears my prayers and answers them. I can be
confident that He bends down and listens to me. So, I can pray as
long as I breathe.
How true that is in our own lives when we
think about talking to others!
Don't we want to talk to those who would hear
us and answer us?
Don't we want to talk to those who would take
their time to bend down and listen to us?
When we know we are being heard and a response to on it's way,
we are more confident to talk to that person than when we feel
'What's the point of talking to this
person, since they never hear us, answer us, or really listen to
us?'
Even when people fail us
when we talk to them, the Lord will never fail us. He will always
hear us, answer us, and bend down to listen to us.
This does
not mean that the answer to our prayers should come the way we want
it too. The Lord is not a genie in the bottle to grant us 3 wishes
or more according to our desires. But, He is One who loves us so
much that He will answer us according to His will.
I should
never get discouraged in my prayers to the Lord because the answer
is not coming the way I want it too because I can be confident
whatever I talk to the Lord, the answer will come whether it is a
'No', 'Yes', or 'Wait'.
I can know whatever reaches the
Lord's ears, He is not One to take it lightly but cares for us so
deeply that He will respond in His loving way. Thank you Jesus.
It hurts me when I hear people say,
'What's the point of praying to the Lord now
since I have asked the Lord time and time again for this and that,
but nothing seems to be happening?'
I don't want to ever give up on prayer because I know my Lord
will answer me in His timing.
I
ask you now dear friend, when do you P.R.A.Y in life?
Dear friend, if you pray only when you feel the answer is to your
liking and stop praying if the answer does not come the way you want
it too, you have made the Lord your genie in the bottle but He is
not your genie in the bottle but One who loves you so much and sees
everything that is happening in your life. He will never take the
words you send to Him lightly but will process every single word
with His hearing and listening because He loves you so much.
This should be exciting to know that you can pray as long as you
breathe because He will hear your prayers; He will listen to you;
and He will answer your prayers. Yes, He will friend so please don't
give up. We can take the Psalmist's testimony to heart from the
entire Psalm of how the Lord delivered Him. He can do the same for
you in His way and His timing.
Answers to your prayers will
come His way and in His timing. Don't let the time factor ever
discourage you from talking to the Lord daily even about a same
issue. Prayers are not answered overnight even though that can
happen if the Lord chooses but they are answered.
Don't
think 'Yes' is just an answer to prayer and not 'No' or 'Wait'.
Think back in your life and remember when you have prayed to the
Lord and the answer came back as 'No' or 'Wait'.
When you reflect back, has there been a time
when you have said, 'I love you Lord so much because you have said
'No' to this thing or said 'Wait' to this thing'; now I have better
than what I asked you for?
I
know it has happened in my life time after time. It reminded me of
the times, I just kneeled down and lifted my hands to Heaven for the
Lord's answers to my prayers. I just wanted to shout, 'I LOVE YOU
LORD'. It also reminded me of the times my precious wife
Chandraleela would shout out, 'I LOVE YOU LORD'.
I will share
two examples from this week alone about answered prayer:
My
precious wife Chandraleela,
Pastor Hugo,
Edwin & Marie,
Calvin & Elise,
Pastor Mike & Jeanne
and others have prayed for my work schedule to change. When I got my
new hours which start today, I just dropped everything I was doing,
dropped to the floor, kneeled down, and gave thanks to the Lord for
His answer to our prayers right in my office. My wife wanted my
schedule to change so I can be there with her in the evenings for
Esther, our precious 3 year old and
Evangeline,
our precious 4 1/2 month old. The Lord answered the prayer in His
timing.
More than the hours change, what was more amazing is
that this past Sunday during Sunday School, our precious Esther
stayed the whole class without crying for Mommy or Daddy. For the
first time in months, I was able to hear Pastor Hugo's sermon
because Chandra and I could leave Esther alone by herself with the
Sunday School kids.
Since the time Esther was born, either
Chandra or I would always be by her side. We never wanted her to cry
but always be happy and cheerful. So, it would break our heart to
leave her alone in the nursery or Sunday School when we knew she
would cry and cry. There was also a time, she did not want to go to
church because she thought one of us would not be with her.
What was hard for us was that other parents were leaving their kids
in the nursery or Sunday School without having any problems with
their kids crying as they grew but our Esther would cry. I told my
wife that we should not compare ourselves with others and raise
Esther how we felt we should. We always wanted her to be cheerful
and bring smiles to others.
We did not want her to fear going
to church so I told her that I would never leave her but be by her
side at church. I did that for months and planned on it even this
past Sunday. In the class, I decided to hide to see if she would
start to cry but she did not. She had so much fun with
JingJing and
others.
Even though we were doing this for her happiness and
cheerfulness, we wanted her to be able to be in class by herself
without crying so we prayed about it. The Lord in His mercy and
grace granted us an answer to our prayer when she decided to be in
Sunday School all by herself now since Sept 2012 when she was born.
It is His mercy that granted us this answer because we could not get
ourselves to leave her alone without crying.
We cannot express how
happy we were to see this happen but more than that I could finally
listen to a sermon by Pastor Hugo because I was not with Esther in
Sunday School.
Friend, these are just two answers to prayers
this week alone. Both of them took months to be answered but the
Lord did answer them.
He will answer your prayers too when
you go to Him but in His precious timing.
Prayer is Wonderful, Prayer is
Powerful
By Ramesh C. Reddy
Prayer is Wonderful,
Prayer
is Powerful
More of Prayer in my life
Lord, in the morning
time
I will pray to you
Lord, in the noon time
I will pray
to you
Lord, in the evening time
I will pray to you
Lord in
the night time
I will pray to you
For You are the Answer
For You are the Answer
Prayer is Wonderful
Prayer is Powerful
More of prayer in my life!
"Prayer Reaches Almighty Yeshua!
(P.R.A.Y)"/"I ask you now dear friend, when do you P.R.A.Y in life?"
Prayer:
Lord Jesus,
thank you so much for loving me so much that you take time to hear
me, listen to me, and answer me in your timing. Please never let me
be discouraged to talk to you when I don't get the response when I
want it. I trust in you Lord. Lord let me hold on to you always
because when I am holding on to you, I am holding on to hope. Thanks
so much Jesus. I love you Lord. In Your Name I Pray Jesus! Amen!
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