God Sees the prayer in it all

God Sees the prayer in it all

Have you ever felt like stopping prayers because the answers didn't come as quickly as you had expected? Or maybe do you still pray? 

What made the doubt and resignation set in? 

I know that yesterday we concluded through God's word that he always comes but what if concerning that request you’ve held on to for years he doesn't ever come? 

Would he cease to be God? It is one thing to quote the scripture "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17) but what about the moments where those prayers graduate to Habakkuk 2:1 (paraphrasing), We will stand upon our watch and see what he will say to us? 

What about when the particular answer to our prayer isn’t a manifestation in signs and wonders but rather a ‘what he will say to me’?

As I reflect on my 2024 prayer journey, I had one request on my lips and I prayed it consistently into 2025, I did receive prophecies of answers but then I kept on saying to God "There must be a physical manifestation of the answers", so I kept on with the same prayer point into the present year. On the third day of seeking God in 2025, I thought to myself, "What was the need to continue another waiting on the Lord when the last one I did I received no evidence of the answers", I didn’t just need a prophetic declaration all I needed was a speedy manifestation of what God has spoken to me. 

That was the answer I needed. I know just like me you might have been caught up in that point, in that point where you just want to stop praying and go for the next option and that is if you have any, but the answer that came to me remains to "keep on praying".

If the words of that prayer have become too cliché and heavy on your lips just maybe it can become a worship, praise, or a living sacrifice to God. The error is when you stop believing in God's ability to fulfill your desires. The God who searches our hearts and souls can put meaning to every tear and pain that our life exhumed. 

While following a worship session online my sister kept looking at me, I was silent and she was wondering while I didn’t say any word or prayer; words do fail most times. The moments when words fail us rather than sighing out our hopelessness or resigning our life to fate, why don’t we raise a song declaring God’s faithfulness? 

The Psalmist in Psalm 65:1-3 declares this reality through the MSGV 

1 Silence is praise to You, Zion dwelling God, and also obedience.

2 You hear the prayer in it all. We all arrive at your doorstep sooner or later, loaded with guilt,

3 our sins too much to ask but you get rid of them once and for all.

Other translations of the bible would have given something different but the highlight in verse 2 is God hears the prayer in it all. As long as in those moments we desire that they become requests to God, he hears them all. In each moment whether the requests are met or not we would still exclaim in our hearts that we have seen the goodness of the Lord.

 And yes ‘’God sees the prayer in it all’’.

Stay Revived!