Answers to Prayer

Just recently in my life, the Lord has really demonstrated His power to me through His answers to prayer. Not to long ago, my family and I went to Busch Gardens. However I was kind of in a predicament. The night before we went, I started to get a soar throat! Now anyone who has had soar throats knows that when your're sick with it, you don't exactly feel like walking around a park all day in the burning Florida heat. So needless to say, I was a little bit worried. I knew that there was only one Person I could turn to- the Lord, the great Physician. So I prayed and I asked my mom to pray too that I would feel better. Well, the next morning I still didn't feel that much better. So I just thought," Well Lord, you have a purpose for this and You are still a good and loving God." Also, according to the weather forecast for Tampa, where Busch Gardens is, there was a good chance of rain that afternoon. So while my family and I were in the car traveling to the park, we prayed to the Lord and asked Him to hold back the rain so that we could do everything we wanted to and that the Lord would take my soar throat away. We all had faith that if it was the Lord's will, He could answer these prayers. The Lord answered those prayers. Not only did it not rain that afternoon and we were able to get done everything we wanted to get done, but the minute I got to the park my soar throat was gone! The Lord had healed me of my soar throat symptoms! The Lord answered our prayers and allowed us to have a great time together.



As Believer's in Christ, many times we pray about our requests but we forget about the faith part. Now I'm not talking about the "name it and claim it" thinking where a person thinks He can order God around to do whatever he wants. No. 1 John 5:14 says, "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." My prayer to God was that if it be His will He would take my soar throat away. Jesus prayed in the Garden, " Father, if it is Your will, take this cup from Me; nevertheless not my will but Yours , be done" - Luke 22:42. In our prayers our ultimate prayer should be for God's will to be done not ours. We can bring our requests to the Lord but we should pray that His will be done first and foremost. Also, we need to seek to pray according to His word for when we do that we know we are praying His will. The faith that we need to have in our prayers is one of beliveing that God is far capable of answereing our prayers if it be His will and when we know that something is His will ( I. e. according to His word ), we should believe that He will answer those prayers. God values faith very much. All through the Bible it is extremely evident (especially in the Gospels) that God honors faith. After all, faith is what releases God's grace through Jesus Christ unto salvation. Let's make it a goal to have faith filled prayers.