Five Days of Prayer - Day Four

Psalm 55:6, 8-9 (NLT)     Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. ... “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

Psalm 62:8 (NLT)     O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge.

Daniel 3:16-18 (NLT)     Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.

One of the most devastating teachings about prayer is that you do not receive what you asked for because you apparently did not have enough faith. Teachings of this sort typically misuse the “grain of mustard seed” scripture. Nothing could be further from scriptural foundations regarding prayer. The truth is that God does want you to pour your heart out to him – the good things, the bad things, the questions, the concerns – all of it, in daily communion with him. But true faith is recognizing that God’s ways are always best. His solutions are flawless; His timing is perfect. You may see responses that are in line with your thoughts, but even when you don’t; true faith is still trusting in your Heavenly Father.

 

Gracious Heavenly Father,

            You are God; I am not.

            You know what is best; I do not.

            I haven’t come to tell You what to do;

            I’ve come to ask you to do what is best.

            I don’t know what that will be;

            but I know it will be the right thing.

            I trust Your wisdom. I trust You.

                                    In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

 

The devotional Five Days of Prayer – Day Four appeared first on Write From My Heart at  

https://writefrommyheartblog.blogspot.com

Email: Dotty Willmon, writefrommyheartblog@gmail.com

Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.