Good Knows Pt. 2
During the sermon on the mount, one of the subjects Christ talked about was prayer. As He was instructing the people to not be like the heathen by using vain repetitions in prayer, He added in Matthew 6:8, “for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
So many seem to have a problem with the fact that God is omniscient. He knows everything. But when you’re down and hurting, His total knowledge often becomes a source of comfort. Especially when an answer comes quickly, even as fast as while you’re still praying.
That happened to Daniel once in Daniel 9:21. He said while he was still praying, God sent His angel, Gabriel, to him. “Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.”
It says in Isaiah 65:24 that this will be common in the life to come, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” But even though God isn’t always pleased to answer immediately every time we pray today, it doesn’t mean He isn’t very aware of what we’re going through.
Sometimes the lessons are in the waiting itself—a testing of faith—but if you are truly one of His own, there will never be a time when your needs will go unsupplied, as David had written in Psalm 37:25, “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
Because He knows what you need. Before you ask.
Are you hungry? “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”3
Do you need clothing? “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”4
No matter what your need is, God knows. And He will answer in His own way and in His own time.—Tammy5
3 Matthew 6:26 KJV.
4 Matthew 6:28–30 KJV.
5 keptbygrace-com/archive/god-knows-what-you-need-before-you-ask.
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FILL YOUR HEART AND MIND WITH GOD'S GOOD TRUTH!
The Lord has given you the best computer ever constructed--your own mind, but it's up to you how you fill it! It has to be filled with something, good or bad, and your reflexes are mentally conditioned to react in a certain way according to what you have learned or experienced. That's why you could hardly accomplish anything more important than to memorize the Word of God!
God Himself is like the Great Central Computer, and you can plug into Him and by His power, His Spirit, He can give you all the information, all the wisdom, and all the answers you need! If you'll be faithful to read, study and memorize His Word, then He can spiel it off by the Spirit when you need it! He will just pop it up in your little computer whenever you make the right connection in your programming!
Once you've saturated your heart and mind with God's Word, you just need to be a yielded instrument and then the Lord can sit down at the console and play at the keys to get out of your computer the information that He wants.--For your little chips off the old block right there in your head have got the whole story, as much as you've programmed it to contain!
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