Day 15 : Everything you ask by praying

"Therefore I say to you : Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and you will see it fulfilled" (Mark 11:24).

Jesus left us with a fantastic promise concerning the power of prayer ! However, this promise is not unconditional. This "whole" does not encompass our personal desires, our caprices, our own will. Indeed this all implies :

All that is according to His will, all that is in conformity with His promises, all that helps to establish His Kingdom, all that honors His name, all that rejoices His Father's heart. If Jesus could say : "For me, I knew that you always hear me" (John 11:42), it is because all these conditions were fulfilled.

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone honors him and does his will, he is the one who He hears up "(John 9:31). The man who utters these words is a man who has just been healed by Jesus. He was blind, and now he sees ! He grasped that Jesus was honoring God by doing His will. To honor God is to do his will.

Honoring God also means honoring Jesus : "If anyone does not honor the Son, he does not honor the Father who sent him" (John 5:23).

To honor God is to be likewise generous : "To oppress the poor is to offend him who has done it, but to have mercy on the needy is to honor him" (Proverbs 14:31). See also: (Proverbs 3. 9/10). These two texts remind us of the importance of generosity towards God and the poor. Generosity honors God, avarice dishonors him. Let us note the fact that there is a link between the sharing of wealth and the fulfillment of prayers : "There was none among them that were needy ... and he performed miracles and wonders by the hands of the apostles." (Acts 4.34 and 5.12).

It is also essential to watch over the way we honor God : "The Lord said, When this people come near to me, they honor me with their mouth and lips, but their heart is far from me, and fear Which he has of me, is only a precept of human tradition" (Isaiah 29:13). This is a superficial but religiously correct attitude to honoring God. The lips honor him, but the heart is not ! Now, God sees it, no one can deceive him, and prayers are not answered !

A question for this day :

Do you want your prayers to be answered ? So honor God with all your heart, for if someone honors God and does his will, it is God's answer.

Paul Calzada