God Answers Prayer
This week we have heard amazing news of answered prayer. A couple we know based in South East Asia are going to have a baby after 9 years of trying and a physician in South Africa giving them a zero percent chance of an unassisted pregnancy. I don’t know how many prayers have been prayed over the years either by the couple themselves or by friends or by corporate prayer meetings in local churches. But I do know that there is an overwhelming sense of gratitude to God and celebration in his faithfulness and goodness in answering these prayers.
As the news was announced on Sunday in our local church there was a spontaneous eruption of applause and praise. Praise because God has acted in his sovereign power and overturned an ‘impossible situation’. Praise because God has done it amongst us. This is not a story we have read in a book of an unknown people. This has happened in our family and God has visited us with his mighty power. Praise because God has looked upon their lives and shown his compassion by answering their cry.
As the psalmist says in Ps 20: 5 (ESV)
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!
We give glory to God and celebrate with joy at the blessing that has come upon our friends!