I like country music. (I know some of you are tempted to void the rest of the post based on the previous statement, but stay with me). I was listening to the radio and a Garth Brooks song came on called Unanswered Prayers came on. It’s a song about how he meets his old high sweetheart at a football game and he thinks about his feelings for her back then and how he prayed that he would marry her, but is thankful that he didn’t marry her because he never would have met the woman he did marry. There was a segment in the song that really stuck out to me.
She was the one that I’d wanted for all times
And each night I’d spend prayin’ that God would make her mine
And if he’d only grant me this wish I wished back then
I’d never ask for anything again
I’m sure just about everyone can recall a moment when they essentially prayed, “If I get X (person/job/gift/whatever), I’ll never ask for anything again.” I can remember one very specific moment when I was fifteen when I came to God with a request like this. Now, when I think about requests like this that I’ve made and others have made, I think of how it must sadden God when we say this.
To say that if we get something, we will never bother God for anything again, I think we totally miss it. We totally miss who God is. God loves us so incredibly much and wants us to come to Him for everything.
Paul said to pray continually, and part of praying continually is asking God to do stuff. We ask God to heal, to protect, to provide.
I feel like, so far, this post isn’t written very well and I’m not sure how to rectify that, but I want to emphasize that we as Christians are called to pray continually, and pray with power and with authority. (That was a very long, maybe run on, sentence).
I am actually going to take my own advice and spend some time in prayer with our Father as soon as this post is finished.
Go. Pray. Now.
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