God Answers Prayers

An Avalanche of Answers

One of the benefits of coming to God is that you can’t come to God and go back empty handed. When we come to God, we receive answers to our prayers. Psalm 65:2 says, “O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come.” Some other versions say “You who answer, to You all people will come.” God listens to our prayers, God answers our prayers.

God has an avalanche; so many different kinds of answers to prayers in His hand. Even though there are uncountable number of people knocking at His door for answers, God never runs out of answers or gets tired of giving answers. So you don’t have to worry that is it ever going to be my turn to get an answer or would there be anything good left when it gets to my turn. God has more than enough timely, good, useful, worth-waiting-for answers for everyone who calls sincerely on Him. He has assorted types of answers that He releases as we pray.

What are some of the answers God gives as we call on Him, as we pray to Him?

An Answer that can bring you out of a horrible pit.

In Psalm 40: 1-2, David said “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me, and heard my cry, He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock.” Are you in a horrible; a very bad, messy and embarrassing situation? Are you in a horrible pit of ill health, debt, lack, financial insufficiency? Are you in a horrible financial mess, are you involved in a scandal or a situation that can ruin your business, marriage and family? The God that hears when we call will give you an answer to your prayers that will bring you out of every horrible pit you have fallen into.

An Answer that puts an end to insults, mockery, shame and reproach, and puts a smile on your face.

This was the situation Hannah found herself in. She didn’t have a child and Peninnah, her rival, had turned that issue into a punching bag; using it to insult and mock Hannah, and drive Hannah to the point of tears (I Samuel 1:6). If you are in this situation, don’t give up in the place of prayer, don’t get tired and frustrated with praying because you have prayed once, twice or more, and still no answer has come. God is mindful of what you are going through and He will come through for you. He will give you an answer that will silence all your mockers and strip you completely free of every garment of shame and reproach. Like Hannah, your story and song will be “My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation” (1 Samuel 2:1). The Lord will put a big smile on your face as you earnestly, persistently and consistently call on Him in the place of prayer.

An Answer Forces and Powers Of Darkness Can’t Keep Away From You.

There are some answers God releases and forces and powers of darkness try everything possible to keep the answer from getting to us. Daniel prayed to God, God heard him, and sent Daniel an answer the very day Daniel called on God. But for twenty-one days, the prince of Persia withstood and detained the angel that was bringing the answer to Daniel’s prayer. God had to send a stronger angel, Michael, an archangel to intervene and release the answer to Daniel’s prayer (Daniel 10:12-13). I pray that as you pray to God, no devil, demon, force or power of darkness will prevail against your prayers. In the name of Jesus, your story will not be one of lamentations about how forces of darkness are delaying and detaining the answers to your prayers. No matter how many foes rise up against the answers to your prayers, no matter how strong those who are resisting the answer to your prayers are, God will ensure that your answer gets to you without any more delay.

An Unbelievable Answer to Prayers

Who would have thought that a hundred year old man whose body was as good as dead, could father a son or a ninety year old woman whose body was equally dead by human and medical standards could still get pregnant? (Romans 4:18-19). God does unbelievable things as we pray. Never believe any situation is beyond God. When God wants to give answers to prayers, He isn’t bound, limited or controlled by age, medical reports, scientific theories, or by things people are used to seeing and hearing. God does the unbelievable as we call on Him; He gives answers that can blow your mind. May you receive such an answer as you devote yourself to prayer.