05/19/2023
Does God Hear Us?
Does God hear us when we are in difficulty.?
We may not feel that God hears us, but scripture tells us that he does hear us, so even if we don’t “feel“ that God hears us, the fact remains that he does. Scripture repeats that God hears the prayers of his people, that he knows our thoughts and intentions. The reason scripture says this is for us to learn to retain and to know with certainty that God does hear us even when we feel he does not.
We must read and believe that, indeed, God hears our prayers, knows our thoughts, and is for us, even if things do not seem to be going the way we want them to go. One of the main reasons for reading scripture every single day is to reinforce in our minds God’s truths so that when situations arise, that we doubt or question, the answer will always come back to God cares, God does, God will be for us.
Repetitive actions bring about what we call “muscle memory”, muscle memory allows us to instantaneously know what to do because we have been conditioned through practice over and over to respond a certain way so that when difficulty comes we don’t have to wonder and question what to do. We instinctively respond to the situation. This is the value of reading scripture every single day. when bad stuff happens around us we do not have to wonder if God hears us because we have been conditioned through training, reading, and preparation to know that God hears us, and that he will respond perfectly every single time.
Psalm 116:1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.