FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer never fails to open the door.
Daniel 6
Prayer never fails to open the door.
Prayer will not fail; however, a wrong approach does not lead to the right.
To pray before God calls for understanding and to embrace the answer from God with understanding.
The answer to prayer before God is not rooted in forcing God to answer as expected.
Praying before God does not have to be in a multitude of words or a marathon in prayer.
Praying before God is seeking God to find God.
In all ways of seeking God, there is a demand for understanding.
Psalm 47:7 records that praising God demands understanding, stating, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
If the word demands praising with understanding, praying before God demands praying with understanding.
Asking, seeking, and knocking is praying before God.
Matthew 7:1-12 is a documentation to understand praying before God, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
The key is to understand how to ask with the expectation of getting.
Praying before God is waiting on God.
The word of God promises to act for those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64: 4 records, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
If God will not answer prayer before Him, He would not have asked to seek Him prayerfully.
God answers prayer; He waits to act for those who wait for him.
Daniel testifies to prayer as a labor with a custom approach.
Daniel testifies labor prayer for his deliverance and preservation that is custom: “As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.” (Psalm 55:16-17)
Praying with labor, with a custom, will not fail to gain and retain the presence of God.
God is God, the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
With understanding, pray earnestly when the situation calls for seeking God, to find Him with prayer.
Prayer for the day: Ask that the understanding and strength needed at prayer time become established in you.