Do you ever doubt if God hears your prayer request? Do you wonder if your problems are insignificant in the courts of heaven? We find our answer in the Word of God. From our text above we read, “...I will hear thee.” The Devil would have us to believe otherwise. He will always attempt to convince us that our prayers cannot get past the ceiling of our prayer closet. And if they do, God will get to them when He has the time. The Devil knows that one of the most discouraging things in our spiritual life is a discouraged prayer life. Adrian Rogers said, “Satan can’t keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.” It is time that we step out of the dark valley of doubt and learn what God has to say about prayer.
    So how soon does God hear our prayer request? Look again at our text, “...while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” That is immediately. Isaiah also said, “...Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” Daniel sought God’s face for twenty-one straight days. God sent an angel with these words to encourage him, “From the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, they words were heard.” (Daniel 10:12). A mother can hear the needy cries of her child even among a multitude of children and quickly respond with help. Then “how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (Matthew 7:11).
    In the book of John chapter four we find the story of Jesus and the nobleman. The noblemen left his sick son in Capernaum and traveled to Galilee and ask Jesus, “Sir, come down ere my child die.” Jesus responds, “Go thy way; thy son liveth.” Displaying great faith in the words of Jesus he believes him, and returns to Capernaum. The Bible reads, “And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that is was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.” (John 4:51-53). This miracle teaches that our prayer requests are immediately heard. “Ask, and it shall be given you.” (Matthew 7:7).
                                                                                                                                                                    Josh Greene
                                                                                                                                                                       9-27-09