Honey From The Rock

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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

A GOD WHO HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER

This entry was posted on 09-30-2009 and is filed under ABOUT GOD.

"It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear" (Isa. 65:24 NKJV).

Isn't this a wonderful passage of Scripture? I love the entire section of Isaiah 65:17-25. Do take time to read the context some time soon. God has so many good things in store for us in the future. I like this verse because I have experienced it. Have you ever prayed for something or for someone and then found out later that your prayer was answered even before you prayed - or even as you were praying? That is because we serve a God who knows all things, even in advance of our knowing them.

"Then why pray at all?" some might wonder. If God knows everything ahead of time, why bother to pray? God is our Father and a father likes to hear his children talk to him even if he already knows the answers to their questions. God is a God of communication, friendship and relationship. God cares about your needs. Sometimes He provides for them even before we pray or while we are praying! Daniel experienced this divine phenomena (see Daniel 9:20-23) because Daniel was "greatly beloved" by God.

T. DeWitt Talmage said, "God puts His ear so closely down to your lips that He can hear your faintest whisper. It is not God away off up yonder; it is God away down here, close up - so close up that when you pray to Him, it is more a whisper than a kiss."

Hymn: "Nearer, still nearer, while life shall last. Till safe in glory my anchor is cast; Through endless ages, ever to be Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee..." (Lelia N. Morris, 1898).