This year I am determined to do better at praying more consistently and with greater confidence in God answering prayer. I want to take to heart this wonderful truth where the apostle Paul writes:
“Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21
That suggests to me that every time we pray we need to know that God is going to take what we pray and so work with it and through it that his answer is going to go way beyond all that we thought possible.
Theologian Peter Kreeft I think expressed this truth perfectly when he wrote, “I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those prayers were destined to affect we would be so paralyzed with awe that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.”
