GOD HEARS YOU
Anything that is significant enough to get you worried is significant enough to pray about. Don’t worry, just pray.
Text: 1 Peter 3:12
It can sometimes be difficult to believe that God is attentive to our prayers or that he even wants to hear from them. This might be because of guilt or feelings of inadequacy or what we might call the irrelevance of our prayers.
The emphasis in prayer is not on the flaws or inadequacies of the person praying, but on the God being prayed to. Even when we go wrong and feel like we do not deserve God's audience, He wants us to come before Him in prayer not because of our deservedness, but because we're His children whom He loves.
God is good. God is gracious. He is merciful and He will not withhold any good thing from us. Most importantly, He is our Father. The awareness
that God is Abba should inform our confidence and approach to prayer. Notice how Jesus prayed in John 14:16. That is the confidence we should have when talking to God. Scripture helps us
understand that men being wicked do not offer stone to their children in place of bread, how much more our Heavenly Father who knows our needs before they even arise?
We must come before God knowing that he is attentive to our voices, our tears and even our irrelevant random thoughts. He cares about every single thing. Nothing is too small or too big to talk to God about. When we pray, we are not speaking to the wind or the empty space. We are talking to a loving, responsible, capable Father who wants the best for us and who is committed to taking care of us. So speak, the Father listens
STUDY THIS: John 5:15, 1 John 5:14, Jeremiah 33:3, Philippians 4:9
DECLARE THIS: I believe that God is my Father. He listens to me when I pray therefore I am anxious for nothing. I cast my cares upon Him with the understanding that He cares for me. Glory!