Watermelon Prayers

"God hears your prayers."

I HAVE only one thing to say today: God hears your prayers.

Wimpy prayers, Scared prayers. Doctrinally unsound prayers. Angry prayers. Curses. God hears and answers. There’s no other qualification than that you spoke them. The church has cursed every type of backwards, supposedly incorrectly spoken prayer, creating a list of don’ts, rather than encouraging you to pray in the first place.

They are wrong. God answers all prayers.

The problem is answers are a process we often don’t recognize. When there’s time between the prayer and the answer, we turn loose. We start analyzing things and create doubt. We reconfigure God.

I was thinking on this today and kept asking myself how to make this clear about Him. Say your son hates watermelon. (I say he’s smart, but not my point.) You know this about him, so you never offer him any, no watermelon fruit salad, no watermelon candy, no watermelon weird-disgusting drink. Then some girl comes up and flashes you a smile and says he took her out for watermelon ice cream. I hope you get my point. That is a lie. You know your son too well.

I know the Father, I know the Son, I know the Spirit, through time spent together; and I assure you They answer prayer every single time. But They answer as is best for us, in what will cause us to mature into the place where we know Them well. They will not hand a toddler the car keys. They will also honor your desire to take them and drive away. If you spend time with Them, seeking Them continually, They will share Truth with you, intimacy, and Their character. They desire for Their heart to be your greatest treasure. If every other part of your life is of more value, if other people’s voices are louder, if you are flippant, arrogant, and wasteful, then you won’t hear Them well and will not understand.

Our behavior affects the answer.

We must come to the point where we know God answers 100%, even if we can’t see how or how long, and it seems to make no sense. We are to trust God more than our own understanding. Proverbs 3:5. More than our confusion. More than our pain. I’ve endured pain, and I grew exceedingly frustrated by it. Then I learned to lean on God, to seek His Presence, and He always worked on my behalf because He loves me. Love is God’s heart. It is why Jesus came. It is why He died. To forever answer our prayers.

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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