Praying in God's Will not Our Own

When you become weary at praying for the same things all the time for years on end, remember all your past prayers have been heard.

If we never uttered another prayer for the same person or the same things, the past prayers still count.

We are told to pray without ceasing, this does not mean we must pray the same things over and over again, it means that we are in constant communication with God all day long about everything.

Pray without ceasing means we are continually focused on God in an attitude of gratitude and wisdom from Him. We rejoice as we see Him work and we rejoice with others who have been blessed by God in some way. We weep with those who weep, upholding them as we walk through life with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer."

Psalm 32:11 "Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart."

Prayer is communication with God continually; it is not begging God for the same things until we wear Him down to do our will.

Sometimes God says no to us, as He did with Paul when he asked God three times to remove the thorn from his flesh. Paul stopped praying for his problem when He knew God had already answered, and the answer was that Paul would have to live with his infirmity for the rest of his life to keep him humble.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9 "7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.…"

When someone tells you to never stop praying for the same things until you get what you want, they are not speaking biblically. Christ in us will tell us when to stop and when to continue.

God told Jeremiah to stop praying for the nation, He even told him He would not hear his prayers because God's will for the nation was discipline.

We must remember to pray in God's will, and often His will is not what we want.

Matthew 6:9-10 "Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven".