Dear God Please Help and Give Me Strength

 Dear God Please Help & Give Me Strength

Presently, are you in the painful spot and ask­ing, “Dear God please help me”? Are you asking, “God please give me the strength to endure? Are your prayers to God not being heard?

There are numerous instances when many of us pray God for some­thing that is incredibly impor­tant to us or even immediately urgent, and yet it seems our prayers to God appear to go unnoticed. So why won’t God help me then? The rea­sons why prayers wind up going unan­swered may not necessarily be obvious to you. But one things is for certain. You need to know that when we request any­thing accord­ing to God's will, He hears us.

“This is the con­fi­dence that we have in Him, that if we ask any­thing accord­ing to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, what­ever we ask, we know that we have the peti­tions that we have asked of Him.” (1 John 5:14 & 15 NKJV)

Notice that this verse shows us that when we have "confidence" in God, He will definitely answer our prayers whenever we pray “accord­ing to His will”. And therefore the subsequent log­i­cal ques­tion would be, “What then is His will”?

“When you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That per­son should not expect to receive any­thing from the Lord. Such a per­son is double-minded and unsta­ble in all they do.” (James 1: 5–7 NIV)

In this case the particular Bible verses are actually showing all of us that when we are dou­ble minded when we pray, we shouldn't anticipate receiving any­thing from God. So what is meant by  "being dou­ble minded"? The idea sim­ply indicates that whenever you ask Him for some­thing in prayer, you doubt whether or not He will answer you. Sim­ply put, God will not react to "unbe­liev­ing prayer". So then if you expect God to answer your prayers, we must recognize that He listens to us and is faith­ful to answer our prayers. However we should recognize that there are things that can hin­der our prayers.

“When­ever you stand pray­ing, if you have any­thing against any­one, for­give him, that your Father in heaven may also for­give you your tres­passes.” (Mark 11:25 NKJV)

God can only present us with the same mercy and for­give­ness that we're will­ing to extend toward the ones who have offended or caused us pain. We are to for­give those who have “tres­passed” against us and then God will hear our prayers.

From this we know that if we make God the first pri­or­ity in our lives, He'll make us a His first pri­or­ity. Everyday draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

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