Have you ever wished that you could hear just a bit farther so that you could hear more of a conversation? I was once able to do this back when I was about nine years old. You see, I had received a gift for my birthday, and what it was was a device that looked kind of like a radar gun with a cupped dish on the front of it, and after plugging in a pair of headphones to it I could point that device towards a certain direction and it would amplify the sounds in that area. The things which I couldn’t hear before I could hear quite clearly. In fact I would even run around a public park with my hearing device and pretend to be a spy as I listened in on other’s “top secret” conversations. Little did they know that I had heard every word…
While this is naturally something that I would never again do as an adult, wouldn’t it be nice if we could at least hear what everyone says to us without having to wonder if we heard everything correctly? That we could just “know” and have complete confidence that we were heard?
The Bible says that we can have confidence that in whatever we ask according to the Lord’s will, He will hear us.
1 John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
The word confident can be defined several different ways. It means to be filled with “trust, belief, faith, or conviction.” The opposite of confidence is distrust or skepticism.
We can have complete and total belief that the things that we pray to the Lord, that He will certainly hear us, and if it is His will He will grant us our petition of Him. Now, we know that the Lord does not grant the prayers of the wicked, because they do not love Him. God does not reward disobedience, but He does reward faithfulness, so if we desire to receive anything from the Lord we must abide in His Word and remain faithful to Him.
Matthew 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
It requires that we have faith. We must believe that He hears our prayers, and believe that He will fulfill them. If we can do this Jesus teaches us that we will receive. Not to ask uncertainly, as though “maybe He hears me,” but we must have complete confidence and know that He has indeed heard our prayers.
James 1:6-7 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Pray in faith, and know that you have been heard, because He has heard every word…
In Christ
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 