I found it interesting as I was reading about faith over the past few days. I found scriptures such as this:
Matt. 17:20 - "...if you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, 'move from here to there,' and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you. (:21) [But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they shall be granted to you."
So, faith includes two parts - one, we must pray and request them from our Father. And two, we must truly believe that God will grant that to us.
Do we really believe that God will answer our prayers? It sometimes seems to be more difficult than the scriptures would suggest. Sometimes many of us do not believe that we deserve our every request to be answered. Also, some of us ask for the wrong things (I believe our Father has a little more on His plate than to grant you a great deal on purchasing that new car). But to ask and to truly believe that God will answer your prayer is to never be worried about anything. It is to realize that your growth in the love and service of the Lord has no boundaries, and to realize that it just might be time to allow the weight of doubt in yourself to be lifted off of your shoulders, knowing that He who has begun this work in you will finish it. (Phil. 1:6)
Sometimes the immediate road ahead looks uncertain. Well, to us it is. We do not know what the Lord has in store for us.
Phil. 4:6 - "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God."
Do not be worried, God is in control. Pray to Him, and let Him know what you would like His help with; and then it is up to you to believe that He will do it.
"But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is
like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
We must keep this in mind when praying from now on. If you feel like sometimes yours prayers do not go "higher than the ceiling," ask yourself if you are praying with belief. Are you praying with confidence in the Lord? Those who believe will receive, will overcome, will charge boldly forward in their humble confidence of the Lord, and will be able to serve the Lord and their families in ways they never thought possible. Likewise, those who do not believe will always seem to struggle with the same issues over, and over again; lacking in faith, never seeming to go beyond the invisible wall they put up for themselves.
Psalms 125:1 - "Those who trust in the LORD Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever."
