Mark 11 - God Answers Prayer! Period.

22"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. 23"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."

What an awesome message from Jesus. We must have faith in our Heavenly Father! He loves us so much that He will do anything for us. All we have to do is cry out to Him, take our needs to Him, have faith and believe they will be done, and they are! Praise God!

I’m here to tell you, I’m a firm believer in answered prayers. I have seen it too many times to believe otherwise. God has blessed me tremendously, time and time again, with answered prayers and I thank Him and praise Him.

God answers all of our prayers, for our best interest and in the best timing (His timing), because He loves us, like no one else can. We doubt and lose faith because we don’t always see the answered prayers in the way or the timeline that we expect them to be. But let me tell you this, I much rather God, in His infinite wisdom, be in control than me with my flawed human understanding.

As I have said before, too many times we take our needs to the Lord in prayer, then get up and say, “I hope God will answer my prayers”. NO! There is no need to say, “I hope”, instead say, “it is DONE”. As Jesus said, believe it is done, do not doubt, and it will be done! How awesome is that?

Now you might say, “Rick, I prayed for $10 million and believed it would be mine, but I haven’t got it yet, God didn’t answer my prayer.” Now, some might say, “God answered it, and the answer was ‘NO’.”, but I don’t believe that for a second. God didn’t say “NO”; He answered your prayer, for your best interest. Let’s look at it. What would you do with the $10 million? Pay off all your bills, buy your family nice things, travel, even give to the church. No more worries, if there is any trouble, just throw the money at it to solve your problems, right? Well, then you would place your faith in what the money could do for you; it would become your god. We already have a God that loves us, cares for us, and can solve our problems (if we let Him), better than the money ever could. So you see, God did answer that prayer, in your best interest, by being Him. So, why would you trade that for $10 million and damage your soul in the process? Thank God, that He always answers our prayers and always in our best interest. Amen?