No prayer is an unheard prayer...

This weekend I went to the Toledo/Michigan area to visit some friends that I dearly love! I can admit that I had a ton of fun! While there, I hung out with one of my bestest friends. We've been friends going on 6 years! It's to a point where we can almost finish each other's sentences! I love it! It's nice to have someone in your life who understands you almost better than they understand themselves!

He'll say that over the last three or four months he's been going through some really rough junk. But I say it's been going on for at least two years (don't shake your head at me). I remember times where I would want to make the four and a half hour drive up there to shake some sense into him. I also remember sleepless nights of prayer and tears. I remember being at church on my knees praying for God to give me my old friend back.

The one who was on fire for God. The friend who wanted to change, wanted to be held accountable and longed to see the face of God. I shed tear upon tear and prayed countless prayers. I even came to a point where I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to help him or who I could get to help him. He was in this pit. His very soul was being tortured by something so evil and yet, there was NOTHING I could do except pray.

When I hung out with him, there was life! There was a fire; a passion burning so strong. There was this renewed light and hope burning in his eyes. We sat and talked and talked and it was amazing! My old friend was back, I was seeing him with my own two eyes! I wasn't dreaming, I wasn't hallucinating! It was him. I could feel everything he said resonating in my spirit! It was incredible! I left feeling encouraged. I left feeling empowered!

So, I say all of that to get to my main point... As I drove home, I realized that all of this was an answer to those countless knee sent prayers, sleepless nights and millions upon millions of shed tears! It was what I unceasingly asked for! I felt like the woman in Luke 18 who had gone numerously to the king asking for protection. It wasn't until she asked and asked and asked for what she wanted that she finally got it.

Be encouraged! God hears all prayers. He wants you to prove faithful in that! "Be unceasing in prayer; praying perseveringly!" (1Thessalonians 5:17, Amplified) God hears all of your cries! He holds all of those tears in his hands. Take heart and know that it's all in God's timing and if you prove faithful in praying, he'll prove faithful in answering those prayers!