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\u201c\u2026Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d -Matthew 6:10<\/p>\n
Often we hear of people\u2019s answered prayer. Then again, there are many other prayers that seem as of yet unanswered. We think of prayer like a phone call to God, with God on the receiving end. We are happy when He picks up (answers our prayer), yet discouraged when He does not. We weigh God\u2019s goodness as to the number of prayers He answers.<\/p>\n
We might ask God for things, is this in fact how we are called to pray?<\/p>\n
Craig Hill in his book, If God, Then Why\u2026? cites an interesting viewpoint when it comes to prayer. He considers believers ambassadors of heaven, and as such, given authority in prayer due to God\u2019s covenant (promise of redemption) with us.<\/p>\n
He says in Chapter 8: \u201cIf God Is In Control, Then Why Pray?\u201d:<\/p>\n
We oftentimes hear people talk about \u201canswered\u201d prayer. From the standpoint of ambassadors, we are actually the ones doing the answering. God wants to speak to us and has many things that He would like us to proclaim and release on earth. Thus, He is waiting for us to listen and answer Him. I believe that the greatest problem in accomplishing God\u2019s kingdom purpose on the earth is not getting God to answer us, but rather getting us to listen to and answer Him. So true answered prayer is when we finally pick up the line to heaven and answer God\u2019s request of us as His ambassadors. (p. 180-181)<\/p>\n
Knowing God\u2019s will is a big part of this equation. What about our belief in God? Do we believe God\u2019s will is for there to be so sickness, no pain, no disease? Do we believe in the verse that says God is \u201cnot wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance\u201d? (2 Peter 3:9) Craig says, \u201cI believe if we (prayed God\u2019s will), we would see an explosion of the Kingdom of God.\u201d (p. 181)<\/p>\n
Have you picked up the line to God\u2019s call? May we all have ears to hear and eyes to see what the Father would have us proclaim on the earth, so that windows of heaven might be opened to the will and plans of God for all humanity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.\u201d -Jesus, John 5:30<\/p>\n
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Praying God\u2019s Will \u201c\u2026Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d -Matthew 6:10 Often we hear of people\u2019s answered prayer. Then again, there are many other prayers that seem as of yet unanswered. We think of prayer like a phone call to God, with God on the receiving end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,238,2864,181],"class_list":["post-26609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-god","tag-gods","tag-praying","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}