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November 24
AND I WILL ANSWER THEE

Scripture: Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

     Many of the verses given in the Scriptures that instruct us to pray also include a promise as this one does in our text. I am so thankful for the promises that God gives us concerning prayer. He tells us that if we will pray, He will answer. What a promise from the One who cannot lie! To know that if we will do the praying, He will do the answering and He is well able to take care of every need.
     D. L. Moody says, “. . . We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search Scriptures to find if it be right to ask it. There are many things we want that are not good for us: and many other things we desire to avoid are really our best blessings.
     . . . John Bunyan blessed God for that Bedford jail more than for anything else that happened to him in his life. We never pray for affliction: and yet it is often the best thing we could ask.”
     If His Words abide in us then we will be submissive to His will in prayer. The promise is given that you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. So much of our praying though is done without a thought of the Word of God or the will of God.
     I am quite convinced of this, that God knows better what is best for me than I can possibly know. In view of the difficulty of bringing our hearts to this complete submission to the Divine will, we may well adopt Fenelon’s prayer: ‘O God, take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself.’