"It will also come to pass that before they call,
I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear."
Isaiah 65:24

Sometimes when going to a function or a gathering where I don't know anyone else in the room, I'm usually hesitant to go up to a person and start a conversation. I'm just not sure what I'm going to say. You've probably heard words of concern like these. We all have this hesitancy -- occasionally.

But there is one person whom we need never hesitate to make a request. What did God say to us about coming to Him? In Isaiah's verse, He says that the answer to your prayer is already prepared before you pray. Your prayers don't surprise Him in the least. Prayer does not begin with what we ask but with what God has prepared.

God has more prepared for us than we are prepared to ask. We need to spend as much time seeking what God wants us to ask for as we do asking. Then our asking will be in keeping with His will. Prayer is seeking God with all our hearts. God can use our imaginations to give us a picture of His future for us, but with one qualification -- that we seek Him with all our hearts. Prayer is the time to let God paint the mind picture of what we are to be and do.

Amen

Contributed by Melanie H.
Published Monday July 14, 2003
Week 33 of Liturgical Year B