God Answers My Prayers
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”
Matthew 7:7-8 (ESV)
You have probably known the experience of a prayer left without an answer — at least in appearance. You asked, for a long time, and nothing happened. Jesus' promise then seems troubling. It takes on a different relief, however, when we understand that God always answers, but not always with a yes, nor always at once.
Sometimes His answer is a no that we will later understand as a gift. Sometimes a not yet that makes us grow before opening. Sometimes an otherwise that far surpasses what we were asking. Prayer is not an order we place; it is a conversation in which you learn to know the One who hears you — and who knows you, Himself, better than you do.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 5:14 (ESV)
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Jeremiah 33:3 (ESV)
I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalm 34:4 (ESV)