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“And we are confident that He hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases Him” (1 John 5:14, NLT).
As a little girl, I used to pray for earthly things—clothes that would make me popular, the newest hairstyle, and a certain brand of dance shoes. I later replaced clothes and shoes with a boyfriend or good test scores. I didn’t understand when God’s answer seemed far away.
By the time I was a teenager, I realized that what I prayed for mattered. I learned about prayer and started getting serious about the words I said. I memorized the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed, and many of Jesus’ words and teachings about prayer.
When mental illness struck my home life, I started praying for peace in a chaotic world. I asked for healing for family members. Money when finances were tight. For evil people to turn away from their sin and become good people.
I’m a firm believer in God’s goodness and answer to prayer. But over the years I’ve learned that sometimes God’s answer doesn’t sound like what we want it to. Sometimes it’s yes, sometimes it’s no, sometimes it’s not yet, and sometimes it’s I have something better in store. We don’t get to choose how or when He answers, but we do get to choose how much we trust Him in the process.
