“May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!” (Ps 20:5). Does God answer all our prayers?
Does the Lord answer every one of our prayers the way we want? If so, and we are encouraged to pray though the psalms and make them personal, we may be misled.
Listen to Psalm 20, verses 1 through 5.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May he send you help from the sanctuary
and give you support from Zion!
May he remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices!
May he grant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans!
May we shout for joy over your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May he send you help from the sanctuary
and give you support from Zion!
May he remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices!
May he grant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans!
May we shout for joy over your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
Will the Lord answer you in the day of trouble? Absolutely yes. But we must remember that his answer is always filtered through his foreknowledge of those who love him and are called according to his purpose to make us look like Jesus according to Romans 8 verses 28 and 29.
We also know that he allows or even sends trials to help us grow to be more like Jesus according to Romans 5 verses 3 and 4 as well as James 1 verses 2 through 4.
Jesus even said when we are persecuted for living a godly life, we will be blessed in Matthew 5 verses 10 through 12.
Do you want to escape from the day of trouble and miss the blessings he has for us?
But the Psalm says the Lord will protect us and send help from his sanctuary. The Holy Spirit comes directly from his heavenly sanctuary, the eternal Zion. The Holy Spirit will aid and support us in our trials. He will give us the desire to live a godly life which is what verses 3 and 4 are talking about because we don’t offer burnt offerings anymore and our desires are to please the Lord and not just have a happy, problem-free life.
When we put these verses that seem to say we can name and claim whatever we want from God in perspective of the whole Bible, we see that it is more about the way the Lord saves us than it is us getting what we want. When our focus is on becoming more like Jesus in our days of trouble, we will shout for joy over our salvation and those prayers will be answered.
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May God Bless you!
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