God and Prayer

    God and how big God is in our eyes, will affect every part of
our Christianity, including our prayer life. God is the Great I Am,
He can do anything that He wants to, but God wants us to talk
to Him, ask things of Him, believe in Him, have faith in Him.
    Who do you trust the most, God or man?


    Jesus tells us that faith, the size of a mustard seed, can move
mountains. The woman, with the issue of blood, believed that
healing would come by touching the hem of Jesus garment. Her
faith pushed her through the crowd. Nothing was going to keep
her from touching Jesus.
    Even as Jesus and His disciples were pushing his way through
the crowd, Jesus knew instantly when she touched Him. There
were many people surrounding and touching Jesus, but her touch
was different. Her touch had faith behind it, and Jesus felt the
drain of healing power leave Him.
    James tell us to ask in faith, with no doubting. When you watch
and hear a child pray, they expect things to happen. That is why
Jesus tells us to have the faith of a child, not an adult.
    I don't know if you've ever read, just the prayers of the New
Testament. There is a drastic difference in the way Jesus and The
Apostles pray for others and the way they pray concerning
themselves.
    Jesus and the Apostles, when praying for others, or healing
others, did it always with confidence, conviction, and faith that
God was going to do exactly what they asked. The power of
God was unleashed by their faith, without fear, without a doubt.
God reacts to that kind of faith.
    When we are praying for ourselves or our family, our human
selfishness can creep into our prayer life. This is the time to say
not my will, but thine be done. We want God to have His will
and what's best for us, regardless of what we may want. We see
this with Jesus in The Garden, we see this in Paul accepting God's
will concerning his "thorn in the flesh." We can even see this in
the model prayer, "thy will be done."
    Ask for God's will concerning ourselves and our family.
Pray with confidence, conviction, and faith when praying for others.

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