This is another GREAT reminder of whose really in control!

Do you want WHAT YOU WANT when you want it...

Do you pray and expect a reply,

And when it's not instantly answered

Do you feel that God passed you by?

Well, prayers that are prayed in this manner

Are really not prayers at all

For you can't go to God in a hurry

And expect Him to answer your call...

For prayers are not meant for obtaining

What we selfishly wish to acquire,

For God in His wisdom refuses

The things that we wrongly desire...

And don't pray for freedom from trouble

Or ask that life's trials pass you by.

Instead, pray for strength and for courage

To meet life's "dark hours" and not cry

That God was not there when you called Him

And He turned a deaf ear to your prayer

And just when you needed Him most of all

He left you alone in despair...

WAKE UP! You are missing completely

The reason and purpose of prayer,

Which is really to keep us contented

That God holds us safe in His care...

And God only answers our pleadings

When He knows that our wants fill a need

And whenever "OUR WILL" becomes

"HIS WILL"

There is NO PRAYER THAT GOD DOES

NOT HEED!

(Helen Steiner Rice)

1 JOHN 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask

any thing according to his will, he heareth us.