Anyone who eats at a Mexican food restaurant with me, knows what I order every time. Cheese enchiladas with queso as the topping. It’s my go-to, all time favorite meal, but it didn’t used to be. It was created by a messed up ordered that I didn’t send back. Though it wasn’t something I would have ever ordered, it was so much better than anything I could’ve asked for.
When it has come to my prayer life and asking God for what I want, I used to rely heavily on this verse and would believe that God would give me every desire of my heart…
Mathew 7:7
Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
The only problem was, my desires were not always aligned with God’s best for me.
I think often, we pray and believe that God will answer our prayers, but we have an exact way in which we want to receive what God has for us, but the beauty of what God has for us, is it’s not always what we ordered, but even better.
Sometimes, we reflect and think well the trials I’m going through really aren’t what I wanted. Or, why didn’t I receive this financial blessing even though I’ve worked incredibly hard and believed in God’s provision for me? When I think these thoughts, I can have the tendency to stray away from praying and believing. Have you ever felt that way before? The thought of “well if God isn’t going to give me what I ordered then I’m just going to stop going there”.
Then I reflect on the prayer life of Jesus when he walked this earth as a human being. He continuously turned to God in prayer. He did not ask to be stuck in the wilderness, who would ask for that? He didn’t ask for Judas to betray him, no one wants to ever feel betrayed. He didn’t ask to be beaten on a cross and killed for our sake, but what a beautiful outcome it had for us all. He believed God had the very best outcome and we should as well.
So as we pray, believe and receive, let’s take what God’s best is for us, even if it’s not what we ordered.
We want to thank Sarah Perry for sharing this post.
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