Matthew 7: 7-11
The Message
“Don’t bargain
with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn’t a cat-and-mouse,
hide-and-seek game we’re in. If your child asks for bread, do you trick him
with sawdust? If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his
plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn’t think of such a thing. You’re at least
decent to your own children. So don’t you think the God who conceived you in
love will be even better?”
I have been
praying about something that I feel is crucial to my own life and I have not
received an answer. I don’t have victory
over this matter and I don’t know what my future holds.
I realise God is
working on my situation and it is taking time, I know that God can change my
life in an instance. In the meantime I am still doing the best I can where I
am.
I think that I
have been waiting passively and not really expecting an answer to my prayer. I
know when I pray for specific things concerning specific people, I can see God
working almost immediately. I need to think about my own prayers for me, am I
to passive about the prayers concerning me? I believe I feel unworthy of God’s
supernatural favor in my life and I am not being expecting something to come my
way.
I wanted to
relate to being expectant, how can I feel expectant? Then I thought about the
time when I was pregnant with my children. I remember when I found out I was
pregnant I started to calculate the date my child would arrive. I remember the
excitement and the expectancy of learning the due date. I remember waiting in
anticipation for the arrival of my child. These feelings need to materialize in
my situation.
Prayer
Abba Father,
humbly I come into Your presence with my request for a job for next year. Lord,
I am being specific and I want to ask You to please help me. I know that if you
have a job, God You have blessed that person. You know that I need a good job,
Pieter needs a good job, Jacques needs a good job and without Your stretched
out hand neither one of us will make it. I am asking You to please open the
doors for each one of us. I am asking in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
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