Acts 12:14-15 14When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
15"You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so they said, "It must be his angel."
When does confident prayer become presumptuous prayer? Is the line many of use in our prayer life, "But if (fill in your prayer request) is not to be, then Your will be done, not mine." I know that this was the prayer of our Lord and Savior in the Garden of Gethsemane, so I am certainly not discounting it, but for the majority of Christians, is that line what we truly mean, or a way out for God because we don't really believe He will answer our prayers?
In today's verse, Blackaby points out that the believers who were praying for Peter had some belief issues. They had been praying for Peter's release from prison. When Peter showed up at the door and Rhoda told them he was there, they didn't believe her. "It must be his angel", was their response. Where was their confidence in their prayers? Did they believe God could not or would not?
The upside to this verse is that God still answers prayer at times regardless of the supplicant's faith. However, if we continually prayer without expectation that God will answer the prayer, then how fervent and consistent a prayer life we will have?
When God answers a prayer will I say, "It surely can't be?" Or will my response be that of Rhoda- an eagerness to share God's goodness with others?
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