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CONFIDENCE IN PRAYER

We can hardly have confidence in prayer if we aren't convinced that His will for our lives far exceeds anything we could ever ask or conceive of. His will for us far exceeds anything we might "will" for our own lives.

Isaiah 49:15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!"

God knows us. God will never forget, forsake, or abandon His own. He is the only One worthy of our worship. He alone is worthy to serve and love.

People have trouble in prayer and doubt God because they don't get what they prayed for when they determined that what they prayed for should be answered in the way they had decided the "answer" would look like. They say, "If God was good, He would have answered this way at this time." They have made an infinite determination with a finite perspective and blind eyes. They have determined how God should be. They have made a god in their own image and determined that this god will do as they dictate, or he is not the true God.

Well...a god of your own making will never be the TRUE and everlasting God. Pray knowing that the One to Whom you pray knows infinitely better what will make for life in you. He alone can make to truly flourish, becoming more whole, more human. Present you heart to Him in the conversation of your prayers. Ask Him to renew your mind, to give you, His perspective. Yield to Him because He knows and loves you. 

That confidence in prayer will cause you to be persistent, praying always about all things, trusting the Lord with the whole of life. Listen, the Shepherd of your soul will never ask you to "lead" your own life. He will lead, asking that to trust Him and follow. Read Psalm 23, trust and pray with confidence!

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