This is related to the book of Habakkuk
The details of our days are different, all who've approached God in prayer can relate to Habakkuk's feeling that God's ears appear deaf. Like us, Habakkuk wrestled with God in prayer. He questioned at times God's silence. When God withheld what Habakkuk wanted he negotiated for a partial settlement. When God said no, Habakkuk took matters into his own hand.
We have only three short chapters of Habakkuk's conversations with God, but they contain major principles of prayer:
Pray with a willingness to wait-we must wait on God, waiting and praying go together
Pray with honesty-Contrary to our worse fears, God delights in our honesty in prayer. Habakkuk cried out, "how long?" (v.2) stripping himself of his neat prophetic robe and laying bare his impatience and frustration.
Pray with perseverance-As we bring our requests to God repetitiously, we partake of his presence repetitiously and give Him more opportunities to change our hearts.
Pray with readiness-We are to pray, ready to receive God's promised best, Ready or not God's answers will come.
Pray with confidence-When we cant see what God's doing, only faith believes he is at work. Habakkuk believed, he didn't know how or when God would accomplish his promise.
Habakkuk knew God was worthy to be trusted and believed in even when He appear inactive.
"I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:1-3
The details of our days are different, all who've approached God in prayer can relate to Habakkuk's feeling that God's ears appear deaf. Like us, Habakkuk wrestled with God in prayer. He questioned at times God's silence. When God withheld what Habakkuk wanted he negotiated for a partial settlement. When God said no, Habakkuk took matters into his own hand.
We have only three short chapters of Habakkuk's conversations with God, but they contain major principles of prayer:
Pray with a willingness to wait-we must wait on God, waiting and praying go together
Pray with honesty-Contrary to our worse fears, God delights in our honesty in prayer. Habakkuk cried out, "how long?" (v.2) stripping himself of his neat prophetic robe and laying bare his impatience and frustration.
Pray with perseverance-As we bring our requests to God repetitiously, we partake of his presence repetitiously and give Him more opportunities to change our hearts.
Pray with readiness-We are to pray, ready to receive God's promised best, Ready or not God's answers will come.
Pray with confidence-When we cant see what God's doing, only faith believes he is at work. Habakkuk believed, he didn't know how or when God would accomplish his promise.
Habakkuk knew God was worthy to be trusted and believed in even when He appear inactive.
"I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:1-3
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