He Hears Our Prayers

Scripture – I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking to me about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers! Isaiah 65:24

Thoughts about what this Scripture means – God hears our prayers. He will answer our prayers, even while we are still speaking.

Application to my life – This is one of the first Scriptures I taught my children when I started seeking God for myself. I wasn’t in church but instead had started reading and studying the Word for myself. I was learning to talk to God and hear from Him, and He met me where I was. In all my brokenness and hurt, God was there. Even before I called Him, He was there.

God looked out for me when I wasn’t calling on Him. As a wayward teenager, God kept calling me back to Him. Even though my Words weren’t necessarily to Him, He was seeing my actions. My heart and soul were crying out to Him as I made poor choices and rebelled against Him. I rebelled against God, even though He had already saved me. He wanted more than just to save me, He wanted relationship. He was answering me before I called to Him, drawing me to Him.

He still answers while I am speaking. I can look back in the past seventeen years, and really my whole life, and see God’s answers to prayers even as i was in the midst of the prayer. He showed me thing before I understood what the meaning was. I could see something was wrong with my pastor, before I knew what happened. I could see the pregnancy, before my pastors were able to conceive. I saw the split of a church. I saw the loss of a job. I didn’t know what I was seeing, but in hindsight it was clear every time. They were things God and I talked about. I just didn’t have the insight to understand. After I felt God was just preparing my heart for what was to come.

Other things God tried to show me, but I wasn’t sensitive enough. Even bigger things He has answered while I was still praying. I feel like He does this for me specifically because He wants me to know who is really in control. He answers in ways I don’t expect and answers questions that I am just pondering but haven’t verbalized. I think again it is because He doesn’t want me to make it about me. Instead He is able to drill home to my stubborn mind “I, God, placed this on your heart.” He take it outside of me and for that I am uber grateful.

Response back to God – Thank You Lord for the promise that You hear my prayers. Thank You that You are in control and that You are in control and working on meeting the need while I am still formulating the words and beginning to speak. You alone are mighty God worthy of all praise and honor.

I pray Lord that my husband surrender you You and serve You as the man You created him to be. I lift up my son and daughter-in-law that you would guide them and keep blessing them as they follow you. I pray that You would guard and guide my daughter’s steps. Draw her back into right relationship with You. I pray for my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren that You would draw their hearts back to You. Plant them in a church and help them each to honor You with their lives.

I pray for the Rapha Center and ask You to bring finances for the center. I pray for lives to be touched as they come in for help, and for volunteers to provide more center hours and the right connections. Also fo our community prayer meeting to unite Your body and bring Your kingdom in NWA. I pray for the vision and leaders in the program.

I pray for the Call that every child would have a family. I ask that the children’s heart would be protected from what the enemy meant to destroy them, and that You would use what they have walked through to further Your Kingdom. I pray that the families that are called to foster would love the children in their home with Your love and be empowered by Your Spirit to meet the needs. I pray for the staff and the DHS workers to be blessed and grow in Your wisdom and guidance.

I pray for my church Lord for the vision to be plain that Your body would unite behind it and further the kingdom in this region, standing in unity and being Your hands and feet.

I pray for this nation that we would repent and turn our hearts towards You. I pray that Your Spirit would reign in this Nation. I pray that leaders would serve with integrity and make godly decisions.

I pray for our soldiers that would would keep a hedge of protection around them. Empower, encourage, and strengthen their mind, boydy, soul and spirit. Be with their families too.

I pray that Your Church would rise up in unity and be Your hands and feet, walking in love and stepping into our divine purposes t further Your Kingdom.

I pray for my coworkers that there be a deepened level of compassion and that they would have hands of healing.

I pray for marriages that the love expressed would be Your agape love and that marriages would be strengthen in You.

Lastly I lift up myself, Help me to be obedient to Yor calling. Help me to guard my heart and my mouth. Let me be Your light and use the opportunities You place before me.