Prayer

At youth group tonight my pastor talked about prayer. Which I absolutely love, talking about and doing. Plus I think our church doesn't put that much of an emphasis on it but recently we have been and it's awesome. And I am eager to make it more a part of my life. But anyways, I write about this because I want to talk about how we should approach the answer to the prayers.

I want to start out by stating that all prayers are answered. Yes, all of them. But here's the catch. God answers the prayers, but it is not always the way we think it would be. For example, we may ask for deliverance from lust. He will not just take it away immediately. This is coming from my experiences, but I believe that God will often choose the answer to our prayer that will teach us something and make us better because of it. Because God wants to see us changed so that it will not happen again, and also that we develop patience.

Patience is key in prayer because after you pray, God might take days or minutes to answer you, or he might take years. But who are we to complain?

I feel like the toughest answer though, is when God tells you to wait and be patient. Because that's when you are still facing your problem and it isn't getting better, but it is in that moment that we either trust God or turn from God. And sadly many turn from God to try to do it on their own.

I know this is short but I feel like prayer is such a key component in a Christians life because it gives us a direct communication to our savior and creator. Plus it teaches us to be less self reliant and more trusting in God to act for us instead of us as humans taking things into our sinning hands.
So that's all I had for tonight but I just wanted to talk about prayer a little bit. And we can never pray too much.