Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, For to You I pray. In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice; In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.

Psalm 5:2-3 NASB

The same prayers had been muttered day after day, week after week. In search of guidance, my heart was heavy, and my prayers had become routine. A spiritual blind spot that had taken residence in my heart was revealed through conviction of the Holy Spirit.

Was I praying just for the sake of praying or did I pray like I believed? Did I believe that the Creator of the universe was hearing my prayers and was going to answer? I soon realized that I hadn’t heard His guidance, in part, because I wasn’t expecting it.

Praying-it’s what we do. Christians pray. We most certainly pray in church. Many of us pray before meals and say bedtime prayers with our kids. We pray for healing for those who are sick and for comfort for those who are grieving. The list goes on, but do we pray expectantly? Do we pray like God is not only going to hear our prayers but that He is willing to answer our prayers with the same power that created this world and everything in it? Often times, my answer is no.

I find myself believing the lie that my problem is just too big … or too little to even pray about. I listen to the enemy when he tells me that someone is too lost and can never change. Oh, the lies we listen to.

What if we changed how we pray? What if we prayed like we believed God and that He was going to hear our prayers and answer them? Not according to our will but to His. For us to believe that God is going to answer our prayers in the manner that we desire is faulty theology.

How wonderful it is that the God that we pray to is the same God who created the heaven and the earth and raised Jesus from the dead?! Praise Him!

There is no need too big that our God cannot meet. There is no financial situation too desperate or a marriage too broken. No child has run too far from the Lord that He cannot bring back to Himself.

Friend, as we enter the throne room of God, laying requests for the salvation of loved ones, the healing of diseases, and comfort for the grieving, let us leave those requests with Him and wait expectantly for His answer.

Waiting expectantly,

Traci