Accepting God’s Solution.

29 Nov Accepting God’s Solution.

When we pray about an issue that is very important to us, it’s easy to begin telling the Lord how to answer our request.

💥We start out asking God for help, but as our emotions enter in, we become more passionate about explaining what we want Him to do.

🎯God promises to answer prayer, but sometimes His answers don’t satisfy us. 🎯Oftentimes we want relief from pain and difficulty rather than an extra measure of grace to endure in a manner that glorifies God.

🎯King Jehoshaphat may have expected the Lord to answer his prayer by giving the army supernatural strength to win the battle, but God’s solution was entirely unexpected.

💥His method was to send the choir out singing praises. Then God took care of the enemy without any help from Judah’s soldiers.

🎯Instead of dictating a solution, Jehoshaphat trusted God to answer the prayer as He saw fit.

🎯Prayer is an opportunity to bring our concerns to the Lord and trust that He will answer in a way that brings glory to Him, not to us.

– With Dr. Charles Stanley.