Answered Prayers!

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(1 John 5:14,15) And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.

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This is not so much about God having selective hearing (that He chooses to ignore our prayers that miss the target of His will). Instead, it solidifies the Old Testament concept of hearing: The Hebrews understood hearing God's Word as being inseparably connected to heeding (doing) God's Word. One cannot truly hear God without also obeying God.

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This helps me understand how to walk with God and to enjoy Him. In the vast infinite-seeming possibilities of all that God wants (and He only does good things, Psalm 72:18), I get to co-create the process of bringing Heaven's joys to earth--may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).

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Lord, I pray for for ears to hear Your voice, as evidenced by feet that follow You. I pray for eyes to see what needs to be done as is evidenced when my hands accomplish the tasks You long to see done. Lord, I pray for increased faith that liberates me to enjoy You in the midst of all that is yet to be done.