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 CONFIDENCE IN PRAYER

If we have little confidence in God's character and in God's Word, why on earth would we have any confidence in prayer?

We pray puny prayers because we have this idea that God's will for us will certainly be more boring in life than our own will. We are deluded when we think that God's will is tighter and so constrained that if we obey, life will become religiously bland, adventure and joy a thing of the past. 

God's will for us exceeds anything we could ever imagine. "By His mighty power at work within us, He is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we could ever ask or even imagine." Ephesians 4:20

The Holy Spirit brings radical change in the life of a believer. We are meant to resemble the Lord Jesus in both word and deed more and more as we follow Him. As we trust Him, we will obey Him, believing Him. We will find God conforming our wills to His own plan and purpose for us.

What would our prayer life be if we knew God always hears us, that He loves us as He loves Jesus, that He has made us to be His own heirs, joint heirs with Jesus Christ? 

Does our praying seem powerless because God's timing in answering is not in sync with our timing? Is our prayer life based on hoping God hears us OR in the sureness of His promises, His character revealed in His Word, and even His commitment to empowering our prayers by the Holy Spirit. To know that the Holy Spirit prays through us in accordance with God's will is meant to open our whole lives to His Presence in prayer, all of it, in hope and patient trust.

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