Pray and Believe

Prayer might seem like a long shot or like a shot in the dark. You pray and wonder what are the odds of your prayer being answered. We all must wrestle with this aspect of prayer since we don't see God to whom we are praying. We may not hear anything either that confirms us in a positive way. We might pray and begin to have serious doubts along the way about our prayer being answered.

We have the words in Scripture, "But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord." James 1:6-7

We cannot be double-minded in our praying. We are invited to have the utmost confidence that as we pray God will deliver. How willing would you be to do something for someone else who had no faith in you? However, when you hear someone say to you, "I know you can do it!" it encourages you to move forward. You are more willing to respond.

Being single-minded does not come easily to us. We must be willing to believe that God can do what might seem beyond our own human realm of fixing problems. We must believe in a God who can do far more than what we can ever imagine!

For the next couple of weeks, I will focus more on prayer in the book of James.

Have you ever found yourself wavering in prayer? Were you comfortable with it?