God Hears Your Prayer

And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me.” – Joh 11:41

One of the secrets to our Lord’s successful prayer life is that He had Perfect audience of the father. Remember, He is the one of whom the Father said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mat 3:17). There was nothing standing between Him and the Father, He was perfectly accepted.

I wish that can be said of us; if only we were spotless and guiltless before God, then you too could experience uninhibited, unhindered access to not just the Father’s heart but also the Father’s hand. But WAIT... wasn’t that the whole point of God coming in the flesh and dying on the Cross?

“And so, brothers and sisters...” Heb. 10:22 says, “we are completely free to enter the Most Holy Place. We can do this without fear because of the blood sacrifice of Jesus” (ERV).

One of the greatest obstacles to answered prayer is a guilty conscience: the feeling of disqualification or not being good enough to merit the desired blessing.

This natural hostility between God and us has been taken care of by the Cross. In the verses preceding the above, the LORD says, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, I will put my laws into their hearts, ...  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more,” (Heb 10:16,17).

Beloved, as long as you’ve accepted Jesus into your life, you have complete, total and unfettered access to the Father: because you have the very righteousness of God Himself! (2 Cor 5:21).

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  – Heb 4:16.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN