Written by Mark D. Roberts, a contemporary author.
If you are a person who prays, you have surely experienced both the pleasure and the puzzle of prayer. In a way we will never fully understand, the Sovereign God allows us to participate in the unfolding of God’s own will. Thus, when we pray, we submit to God’s will and, at the same time, tell God what we’d like God to do. Mysteriously and graciously, God receives our counsel and acts upon our requests. Sometimes God says “Yes” in stunning and delightful ways. Sometimes God says “No” in ways that feel puzzling and disappointing. Often God says, “Wait,” which can give us hope sometimes and discouragement at other times. We will never fully understand why God answers our prayers in the way God does, this side of Heaven, at any rate. Yet we continue to pray, trusting that God knows what is best even if we can’t figure out God’s ways.
Prayer:
Written by Jill Weber, a contemporary spiritual director and the director of Houses of Prayer.
God, I give You my unmet expectations, my frustrations, and my questions. Is there something that You know about me that I don’t Something that You are doing in me that I don’t yet understand or appreciate? I listen now to receive your perspective.
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