Pray Believing / Miss Katie Biddinger

Miss Katie Biddinger

First Grade Teacher / GVCA

Grandview Baptist Church

Beavercreek, OR

Pray Believing

It is amazing how God seems to come at you from every angle when there's something He wants to teach you.  How every message you hear seems to speak about it, how every verse that jumps out at you deals with the same issue, how you will be having random conversations with friends and the subject will come up, how even the banners hung up at the church are speaking directly to you about it.  Lately, the thing that God has been dealing with my heart about, and constantly been reminding me of, is the principle "Pray BELIEVING."  The Bible says, "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

I have been challenged that sometimes I am content with a lack of answers to prayer.  I pray, but when I don't get answers I just lackadaisically brush it off with a "well I guess it wasn't God's will."  Time and again in the Bible, God includes stories of people who persisted in their request, or who because of their FAITH had requests granted.

 I never understood why Jesus said "I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel" when referring to a man's request and the details of his job description.  Recently, I heard it explained that this man came to Jesus saying, I have men under me, and when I tell them what to do or make a request, I expect it to be done.  He was approaching Jesus with the same expectation and confidence.  It finally made sense!  Hebrews 4:16 says, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."  Jesus wants us to come to Him boldly!  To know Him and to seek His help and intervention in our every day lives EXPECTING that He will hear and answer.

Developing a consistent prayer life has always been a struggle for me, and I still have a long way to go and a lot more I could do...  But as I have begun to apply this principle to my prayer time with the Lord the last few months, I have been humbled and amazed already to see God answering my requests, from the simplest little things, to the more serious and complex needs, desires, and outcries of my heart.  Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."  I have been challenged to pray in FAITH, BELIEVING that God will answer, "for with God nothing shall be impossible."