Part of the Answer
Their prayer was answered in them.
Ever find that your prayer for someone or something is answered. Sooner than you thought. Closer than you’d like?
Jesus urged his disciples, “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:38). No doubt they did ask. They shared Jesus concern.
The very next verse in Matthew’s gospel reports that Jesus “called his twelve disciples to him” and thus they were “sent out.”
They asked the Lord to send out workers. And then they were sent. Their prayer was answered in them.
When you pray for a friend to be blessed by God, be prepared for God to send you with a blessing. When you pray for more stable income, you’ll probably miss it if you watch for money to grow on trees but you just might find a unique employment opportunity or career option you hadn’t previously considered. When you pray for good weather, God may very well use you as his sunshine to brighten another’s life. When you pray for patience, just watch, God will put you in circumstances that allow you to practice patience.
God loves it when his children pray to him. He also loves making us part of his answer.
PRAYER: When I pray, dear heavenly Father, I can’t always consider the millions of possibilities for answers in various forms and different times. If you so choose to aim one of those possibilities back at me, then let me be willing, let me be receptive to your choice, and honor me as your chosen instrument. When my weak heart and worried mind disagree with your assignment give me such faith in your promises and love for the needs of others that I go forward and accomplish the task you have given. Hear this for the sake of Jesus. Amen.