God Does Answer Prayer

The apostle Peter wrote, “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” (1 Pet.3:12). One of the greatest questions that confronts the child of God is: “Does God really hear and answer prayer in this well established and fully equipped world today”? Often we find mankind facing many difficulties, and often reason that some of these difficulties are impassable. On one side there are doubts, hesitation, and uncertainties. Yet, there is another side where we see and bow in full trust, and with unselfish labor and peace. Some, nevertheless, find themselves on this side of the line, then at others times on the other side. Friends, I am going to take the affirmative without hesitancy, believing that it can be fully demonstrated, clearly and factual, that God does hear and does answer, and that our great need is the deep conviction, based upon the Bible, that the proposition I now am affirming is true! God does answer prayer!

We search in answer of the thought; “Is there any evidence offered that God has placed in us the principle of dependency which at all times, but more so in hours of distress and deep need, for us to cry unto Him with the promise He will hear and help?” Yes!! “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb.4:16). “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.” (Heb.13:5-6). We may find at times to be “persecuted, but not forsaken.” (2 Cor.4:9).

We are able to see and understand that proofs are numerous, and incontestable that God cares for us, and that nothing that pertains to us can be foreign to Him! Therefore, I conclude that our God of love has surely “given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.” (2 Pet.1:4), and is not forgetful of our temporal needs. God did provide us with means of making ourselves and others happy, and He still has a concern for us, and still desires for our earthly sojourn to be happy. He continues to listen attentively and sympathetically when we cry unto Him in our hours of trouble. He, no doubt, must be pleased with us when, in self-forgetfulness and humility, do as He expects us to do . . . Bring all our needs before Him and expect Him to hear and answer. It is true that prayer is the key to the great storehouse of God, and certainly we have but to ask that we may receive our requested needs from that storehouse. We receive not, because we ask not. Ask, for God does answer prayer.

. . . . Fred House