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NASB | Jeremiah 29:12 'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 29:12 'Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you. |
Subject: 1 Thess. 5:17 |
Bible Note: When a praying saint says, "God answered my prayers" what does he mean? Usually we take it to mean that God granted him his supplication. And it may be true. God does answer prayer by granting the thing prayed for. But it is also no less true that God answers prayer in the negative by not granting the thing prayed for. Far better to say that God answered my prayer and granted that for which I prayed, or that God answered my prayer but did not grant that for which I prayed. To say that "God didn't answer my prayer" when one really means that one's request was not granted is as inaccurate a thing to say as "God answered my prayer" when one means that his request was granted. God did answer the petitioner's prayer. The 'yes' answer may have been far more pleasing to the petitioner than the 'no' answer, but either answer reflects that which is more pleasing to God. God is sovereign and always acts according to His will. Thus the saint must always pray in accord with God's will. "Thy will be done" has much meat in it; it is not just a group of idle words that Jesus inserted to embellish with syntactical flourish and poetic flair the prayer He taught His disciples in Matthew 6. --Hank |