Overcome the Disconnect

February 4

Sometimes there is a ‘disconnect’ where prayer is concerned. We know it can’t be a loose connection at God’s end so there must be something amiss in the way we pray. The unfortunate truth is that often our conversations with heaven just don’t seem to be getting through.

We know that even when our prayers have been heard and God is fully intent upon answering the matter just as we desire that He do, there is sometimes a ‘delay.’ We only need to read Daniel 10:13 to discover that there can be a powerful demonic entity that complicates the receipt of an answer to a prayer.

And we have the assurance in Romans 8:26 that when we don’t know how to pray, the Holy Spirit will help us to know exactly what we should pray. Through the gift of speaking in tongues, He shall pray according to the will of God through us. More often, however, we know exactly what we want to place before the Lord, and at those times, we have a “mighty Advocate with the Father” (I John 2:1) who will help us to pray. Jesus Has given us a wonderful assurance of His interest in our success when we pray.

In numerous places He says things like, “Everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds, and to him that knocks, the door shall be open,” Matthew 7:8. He further qualifies the receipt of our answers to prayer by saying in John 15:7, “If you remain in Me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you will and it shall be done.” We ask, and seek and will find if we are fully in Him. We will discover that when we employ the Helps He has given, there will be a bridge between ourselves and our God that will overcome any disconnect!