Acts 10:4 “And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind”

Daniel 9:23 “At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you”

How many times have we become discouraged by asking God for things? We feel that He isn’t listening or that He juts does not care.

But the fact remains that the first moment we, His child opens his mouth that “God has heard”. Daniel began to pray about something but still after three weeks there was no sign that God was listening. Yet we read from the first words he began to pray “God heard”.

There was Cornelius he was praying and the messenger was sent to say “your prayer is heard”.

God wants us to be encouraged that He really is concerned about the things that bother us and that from the first word we utter, He is there listening to us.

Sure they may be long delays, just as Daniel had to wait for the answer. Some of us have been asking for many years for things, but He teaches us that we are to keep going and not give up.

Pain and tiredness have a way with us, and seek to discourage us from continuing but the Spirit would say to us “Keep going and your will honour Me and I will honour you”.

Do not give up, keep at it for the act of persistence will make you stronger as well as more blest.