Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters for redivotors

else to the Lord daily with you. Good morning guys. Good morning indeed as we are rounding

out with a three of our confidence in our Lord devotional and the Bible app. There's

a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us and as always

I'm going to read the scripture then Tori is going to pick up the divot. Let's do it.

The scripture is 1 John chapter 5 verse 14 and it says this and we are confident that

he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. The devotional is titled

be confident and prayer and it says this. Are you listening? It's likely you've asked

that to someone you're speaking with or you've certainly thought it. How often does

it seem we are speaking to a person and his or her attention appears to be elsewhere?

Do you ever pray and wonder if God is really listening? Today's verse speaks of confidence

and approaching God in prayer as well as the assurance that he hears us. There is one

more key element according to his will. Asking God to bless a bad or even sinful decision

is certainly not praying according to God's will. By the same token it's not against

God's will to ask for something which might seem trivial or difficult. Often we lack

confidence in prayer because we doubt God's ability to do something or try to limit God

with our own human reasoning. Having confidence in prayer comes from knowing and remembering

who God is. He always has been and always will be, the Almighty, all knowing God. Nothing

I'll say it again. Nothing is beyond his ability or power. We need to remember when it

seems like God isn't listening. It is because he is likely doing one of the following.

First, giving us something else because he knows what we ask for isn't the best for

us. Two, making us wait because in his perfect knowledge he knows the perfect timing for

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