142 days until the Lilburn, GA, USA Revival Conference

142 days until the Lilburn, GA, USA Revival Conference

But just this is the difficulty. More than one believer says, "I do not know if what I desire is according to the will of God. God's will is the purpose of His infinite wisdom. It is impossible for me to know whether He may not count something else better for me than what I desire or may not have some reason for withholding what I ask." Every one feels how with such thoughts the prayer of faith, of which Jesus said, "Whosoever shall believe that these things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith," becomes an impossibility.

There may be the prayer of submission, and of trust in God's wisdom; there cannot be the prayer of faith. The great mistake here is that God's children do not really believe that it is possible to know God's will. Or if they believe this, they do not take the time and trouble to find it out. What we need is to see clearly in what way it is that the Father leads His waiting, teachable child to know that his petition is according to His will.

It is through God's holy word, taken up and kept in the heart, the life, the will, and through God's Holy Spirit, accepted in His indwelling and leading, that we shall learn to know that our petitions are according to His will.

Through the word. There is a secret will of God with which we often fear our prayers may be at variance. It is not with this will of God but His will as revealed in His word that we have to do in prayer. Our notions of what the secret will may have decreed and how it might render the answers to our prayers impossible are mostly very erroneous. Childlike faith as to what He is willing to do for His children simply keeps to the Father's assurance that it is His will to hear prayer and to do what faith in His word desires and accepts. -Andrew Murray

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