He'll Do Something He Would Not Have Done

A month after reading this in a post
by Steve Fuller at the Desiring God Blog, I can say that it has tremendously
reinvigorated my prayer life:

One reason we don’t pray is because
we believe Satan’s lie that prayer does nothing. But that’s not what Jesus
taught (Matthew 7:7).

Jesus promises that every time we
pray, God will answer. He will either do exactly what we ask, or something even
better, which he would not have done had we not prayed.

So if I start the day praying about
my heart, marriage, children, work, and ministry, then God will do things in my
heart, marriage, children, work, and ministry that he would not have done had I
not prayed. Trust Jesus’ promise about prayer — and pray.

It was that last paragraph that pierced me, that I continue
to hear in my head every time I sit down to pray, that indeed compels me to sit
down to pray when I’m tempted to skip prayer that day.

When we pray about something, God will do something in that
situation He would not have done if we hadn’t prayed. 

Those are words of great promise, and hope, and
responsibility. I hope they’ll move you to pray like never before.