Reply To: Prayer Discussion Board 1

[femionas]

I particularly love what you said in your second lesson about “God having good intentions in his will for us., and that, when we go to him in prayer just like Jesus did, we should look past the overwhelming circumstances and seek his will in prayer as well as pray his will for our lives”. God’s intentions for us are in his word. We can have good intentions however, but if they are contrary to God’s word, then we are moving in rebellion to God’s word – and that is not a good place to be Proverbs 3:7,
In Mathew 26: 38, Jesus told his disciples that the soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: and in verse 39, the bible said he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed to God, that if it were possible that the cup should pass from him. All this tells us that, he was overwhelmed by the situation in front of him, the burden he had to carry, but thank God, he quickly submitted to the will of God by saying, Not my will, but thy will be done.
The lesson for us here is that we should always align with the Will of God for our lives. And that prolonged seasons of waiting that we experience sometimes is not an indication that God has forgotten about us, it is either that it is not yet the time for it to manifest, or that it is not in his will because God always has good intentions for his children.