Over this last year, I've often wondered what to pray for.
When we found out during my pregnancy that our baby had heart problems, I wondered how to pray. Please heal my baby OR Please help us through this hard time??
When our baby was born and it seemed we would never leave the hospital, I wondered how to pray. Please help us to be able to go home quickly OR Change us for good during this hard time and use us here.
When we came back into hospital for our baby to have heart surgery, the same questions again. How do I pray? Give her a quick recovery OR give us help and strength?When a week after being home after surgery our daughter got sick again with a complication from surgery, and we found ourselves back in hospital with a long stay ahead of us, I wondered again how to pray. Please heal her quickly OR Help us to be content in the situation we are in??
How would you pray?
I have learned to pray both ways and then add "but do what You think is best."
Sometimes God will take our problems away, and its not wrong to pray for that. But sometimes God answer is
..My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
This is the answer God gave Paul when he prayed for God to take a problem away. He prayed three times, but this was God's answer.
My grace is sufficient. In another words, I'll help you through this.
Our character and spiritual growth is more important to God than us having a trouble free life. So sometimes He won't take a trial away, instead He will help us, strengthen us, grow us, change us and make us more like Him through the trial.
If you don't realize that this is an answer God sometimes gives, you can get very confused, disappointed and even angry at God, because you think God is not answering your prayers!
So tell God your desires, but surrender them to Him and let Him give you His best.
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