Does He hear prayer ?

I heard 'em say He brought me from a mighty long way

And now today I can testify that I believe it

And on my way I realized He's the one who kept me

When the storms of life arise, sleepless nights and desperate cries, He has captured every tear, assuring me He hears

Every prayer, waiting on the answer, only to discover He is near

And He hears every prayer for He has done great things

And I believe He's a God that always answers prayer

I heard 'em say the prayers of the righteous availeth much

And now today I can testify that I believe it

Now on my way I wanna let you know that He will keep you

When the storms of life arise, sleepless nights and desperate cries, He's captured every tear, assuring me that He hears

So don't despise the tears you've cried or the prayers that you have prayed

Heaven heard your every word and the answer, the answer's on the way – Israel Houghton, Every Prayer

I’ve been walking this far and realized that God always answers prayers. It can be yes or no. Many people say God doesn’t answer their prayers when God doesn’t grant them what they asked. But I believe it’s just another way of God telling them “No, I’ve something better for you” or “No, I want you to wait a little bit longer for that”.  But sometimes we become impatient just because it doesn’t come right at the moment we pray. We suddenly become doubtful and start to ask ourselves “Does He hear me?” and when the thing get worse we start to blame God because He doesn’t give us what we want. 

But that’s just the way it is. God’s answer is either yes or no. But about the time, there’s nobody really knows because it’s up to Him whenever He wants to answer you. But in every moment of my life, I can grant testify that God’s answer comes in a perfect moment. It’s never too late or too fast, it’s just perfect. 

Let me tell you a story about Lazarus. He was a brother of Mary and Martha. Mary was that one who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair. Lazarus was sick at that time and thus they sent a news telling Jesus that their brother was sick. But what Jesus said was surprising. I believe at that time those people there felt like Jesus didn’t care because He said  “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby” and Jesus abode two days still in the same place where He was. You see, Jesus didn’t immediately come to Lazarus because He had something greater than that. 

Then Jesus decided to go back to Judaea. When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had been died and lain in the grave four days already. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died”. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have been died”.

When Jesus saw Mary and people there crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. Even Jesus cried, He felt so hard to see tears came from those who believed in Him. Then Jesus went to the grave and said “Take away the stone!” but Martha said, “Lord, by this time he stinketh for he had been dead four days”. But Jesus said “Said I not unto you, that if you believe, you will see the Glory of God?” and they took away the stone. 

And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said “Father, I thank You that You had heard Me. And I knew that You hear me always but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that You had sent Me”.  And when He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice “Lazarus, come forth!”. Lazarus that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes and his face was bound about with a napkin.

That’s the way it is. Sometime He doesn’t say yes to your prayer all because He wants to give the best to you. He would rather say no to your prayer because He wants you to believe Him and let Him do the things, those wonderful things. He wants you to die with all of your dreams so that He can take a full control to work and let you know that He is able and He loves you.
Sometime He wants to take you to the lowest point of your life to let you know that He cares too much for you. Even He cries with you whenever you feel sad. Just like when He cried when He saw Mary was crying because of Lazarus.

I want to let you know, that the answer is on the way to come. Just believe in God, because your doubt prevents Him to do all for you. He wants you to believe Him, not sometimes, not a day, not a week, but in everytime in your life, He wants you to believe in Him.

He sometime lets your dreams die within your pride. He sometime let you cry and hurt. But believe me, it’s all because He wants you to rise as a victor, to wipe the tears and heal the wounds and tells you that He loves you. A father sometime rebukes and chastens his child, but it’s all because he loves him and so does Jesus loves you.