Pray His Will Be Done

April 30

Does God answer every prayer we lift before His Throne of Mercy and Grace? Does He always send what we ask to meet the need about which we raise our supplication before Him? The answer to that is, “No, He does not.” Our God is not a genie who responds to our rubbing the magic lamp of prayer.

While there is great power in prayer, while there is an enormous, virtually untapped resource available to the believer in Christ that few of us utilize as He would have us to do, Jesus has not promised that the floodgates of heaven’s blessings would pour forth in response to our prayers.

He wants us to ask in accordance with His will. I John 5:14 says, “This is the confidence we have before Him: whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” Contrary to what we might suppose, then, this qualification is not a limiting, but an expanding factor regarding receipt of answers to our prayers, for His Word identifies many things that are His will for us to have!

We may pray for the salvation of the lost, for He says it’s His will that men be saved (I Timothy 2:4). We may pray for healing for the sick because Isaiah 53:5 tells us that He bore the stripes of the Roman lash upon His back to effect health. If we are committed to Jesus above all else, we may pray for prosperity because III John 2 says we are to prosper as our soul prospers. Pray His will to see it done!