12 June, 2011

You Are Heard When You Pray

Ladies let us continue to pray for the people of Joplin Missouri, The seven Southern States, Japan, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Africa, Israel and the rest of the Middle East. Your prayer support is very much appreciated and the impact of it is felt around the world. Believe us we know. 
We want to encourage not giving up on your dreams and desires. They may see far fetched right now, but as you hold on and believe, that they will come to pass. You will see the manifestation of each of them only if you do not lose hope and have faith in God. Just like the Bible says "faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen". Dear one faith is the confidence that will keep hope alive, it is the confidence that what you are hoping for will actually happen.  We all have celebrated birthdays so we can all relate to this analogy. Do you remember when you decided to have a party? One of the first things you did is make a list of the people you would like to attend.  Do you remember how you felt as the day of the celebration approached? You were excited and anxious. You knew beyond the shadow of doubt that you would receive gifts and other special things. But somethings would be a surprise. You see, the birthday celebration integrates anticipation and assurance and so does faith! God is ready to answer our prayers, but we must ask for His assistance. God can take care of our needs without us asking. However, when we ask, we are acknowledging that He alone is God and that we cannot accomplish in our own strengths all that is His domain to do. When we ask, we must humble ourselves, lay aside our stubbornness and worry and resolve to obey Him. 

Know that all of your prayers are heard and been answered by the Almighty God. Here are two verses from the Bible to confirm it.

"For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you." – Isaiah 30:19 

"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." – 1 John 5:14-15

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