Hosanna Restoration Church

Isn’t it good to know that above all the clamor that goes on in the world, God hears our prayers? This is something that we must be certain of if we are going to pray in faith. If we are asked if we believe God hears our prayers, our response should be that He most certainly does.

We all have needs and we love to have God meet those needs, but the thing that struck me recently was that our prayers meet God’s need of people to love and trust Him. We do not often think of God as being in need of anything, but the truth is He desires our love and trust and prayer is the way that we show Him we love and trust Him.

In my alone time with the Lord recently I told Him that I just wanted to sit with Him and hear what was on His mind. I expressed my amazement at how with all of the clamor around He is never distracted or misses a word of anyone’s prayers. I told Him I was sorry there was so much hate and doubt that is expressed toward Him in our world.

There are many who not only deny Him, but defy and hate Him. This makes me sad. There are also many who say they love Him but don’t really trust Him. As I considered all of this I was feeling kind of sorry for God. I hope you agree that He is way too wonderful to get such a raw deal!

Well in the midst of this, God pointed out to me that my love drowns out the hate. He said that my trust washes away the doubt. Of course He told me this so that I would tell you that this applies to every single child of God. One word of praise from you erases a million mocking words that someone releases into the air. When you turn your eyes to God and focus your love on Him, the hate is brushed aside.

He is not discouraged by unbelief as long as you and I stand strong in our faith. This brought to mind the verse that says one can turn a thousand and two can turn ten thousand. Just think of that. One word of faith activates heaven in thunderous praise while doubt is a non event. Doubt is ignored in heaven.

God just keeps watching over His Word to perform it. This is the way that we need to be. We need to see the Word of God and act on it and consider everything else as a non event. We can pray in faith knowing that we have blessed God. It is nice to be blessed, but it is even nicer knowing that we can bless God. Truly it is more blessed to give than to receive. Make God happy and pray.