Answered Prayers

The Lord generally has three types of answer as He always answers prayer. His answer could be an affirmative "Yes", a negative 'No" or a passive "Wait." But He always answers all His children's prayers. Only one has to discern what is the Lord's answer.

Recently, the Lord encouraged me very much with affirmative "Yes," again and again, resounding. Of course, these have been answers to years of prayer. Whichever the answer may be, prayer is always a win-win exercise. The result of the prayer itself is worth praying for. The very act of praying and the answers to the prayer are always worthy. In fact, the act of prayer itself is the benefit of prayer, and much more, answers will be added in due time.  

In the past one month itself, the Lord has brought in three solid result to our prayers in the literature service, and two more are on the way. In our office, every morning we spend at least an hour of prayer and pursuing. It is not a mere obligation but an experience and enjoyment of the Lord. As we faithfully prayed for the need of the literature service in various languages and for various parts of India, the Lord bountifully blessed us. In time, He begins to answer our prayer one by one.

One particular language was suffering for lack of proper serving ones, but the Lord is now filling up the lack and a new beginning is dawning. The Lord is faithful and meets His own need. This particular experience is very encouraging to me.

When in one spirit with the Lord, every prayer uttered is the Lord's prayer and the Lord will always answer His prayer through us. Our simple responsibility is to exercise to be one spirit with the Lord by being in the mingled spirit. This brings us to the basic Christian living as in Romans 8:4 "That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.", 1 Timothy 4:7 "exercise yourself unto godliness", Galatian 5:16 "But I say, Walk by the Spirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh," 25 "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."

Lord, grace me such a basic living and walking in the Spirit.