If-it-be-Thy-Will Prayers

When we really are stumped regarding the best thing to pray, it is, like always, good to pray for God’s will to be done.

Using “If it be Thy will” prayers as a substitute for finding, through study and prayer and fasting or whatever it takes, what His will happens to be, is not likely to be the best plan. Finding what He wants and asking Him to do it is the best plan.

Sometimes, its a new dilemma, or we’ve seen Him do something more than one way in the past or in the Scriptures. The best plan is still to ask Him what to pray before praying. Faith is multiplied when we ask for something we are convinced He wants. When we feel like we are having to twist His arm to have our way, its shakier ground to stand on in prayer.

Perhaps the first step in the process is becoming convinced that He wants us to know what He wants us to do. From there, believing that we are really able to hear from Him what He wants us to do is a good next step. Finally, being convinced that we have, somehow, grasped what His desire is, to stand asking for it, no matter what we are accused of by our family or friends, no matter how impossible it seems, or how extravagant, to stand against every unclean spirit and ask our Father is a place of maturity.

One of the paths to that kind of maturity is to learn to listen to Him as He leads us into the ministry of bearing fruit with our lives. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is what I command you: love one another.” (John 15:16-17 from Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

“So that” whatever you ask…