Its just a sharing.. From a person I knew so well.. There goes her story..
She knows a few friends that are prayerful. Friends of both gender that share about God and their faith. Sometimes her friends are quite amazing to her for she hears stories of faith and everytime she hears of a story of an answered prayer through signs, she always asks herself, "Hmmm.. why can't I do the same?"
Sometime ago, this girl asked her spiritual mentor what does it take to pray asking for a sign. Her mentor just told her, "When you pray, don't ask for a sign, ask for God's will about your prayer request. God answers YES, if it is a YES, NO for a declined request or IT IS NOT YET TIME. It is very important that you have a relationship with God."
With this in mind, she didn't pursue this kind of prayer eventhough she still has questions unanswered. Time flies and these unanswered questions are all cleared from her mind. And from a virtual friend's unsolicited advice, she realizes something about it.
For her virtual friend said, "There are two types of people that prays to God, first, people praying for signs and secondly, people praying for God's will. Which one are you?"
Well, as she said she's not good in asking for signs but she did ask something from God lately. She's asking for a sign. When her friend rebukes her, she questions herself, "Why do I have to ask for a sign from God when I can simply ask His will? I have a relationship with Him anyways."
So she meditates on her prayer request and examines what she really wants from God. And by His grace, things are getting clearer on her mind. It is also by God's generosity that He reveals something to her. Something that made her understand why there are some people asking for signs.
As she has been studying and reading the bible for quite sometime now, she knows of the bible stories that reflect this kind of faith. Long time ago, some prophets prayed to God ON BEHALF OF THE ISRAELITES.
and these prophets performed miracles infront of these people for them to believe and for the false prophets to be put in shame for they bowed down to a false god and led the ISRAELITES to a false faith.
Now, the revelation to her goes like this:
- Prayer is a one way communication to God. For God answers in different ways.
- Prayer is not only heard by God Himself but also by the evil spirits. When people pray asking for a sign, they may use this as a bait and fools the innocent people.
- People must understand that God's will is always good, pleasing and perfect (Many are confused by this, for they thought when they pray and something is not going on their way it is not the will of God. But the truth with it is that at a certain moment, God says, IT IS NOT YET TIME.)
- Signs from God don't change, no matter how many times You ask Him.
- Asking for sign is not for the benefit of the person's praying but ON BEHALF of the people he is praying for so that they may believe and may have faith in the Lord of heaven and earth. And this is what the prophets of God are doing.
Now, we are not yet prophet of God or never we will be so why ask God for a sign in prayers?
And which one are you? a person praying for a sign or a person praying for God's will?
God bless you all.. ^_^
