"Answered Prayer"

"Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me." (Psalms 40:13) Haste is such a hasty word, but in the midst of any battle, there really is not time for small talk or sipping tea; however, God already knows what we need before we even ask Him for anything. As a matter of fact, sometimes before we even ask, He has already provided the solution in one way or another; whether it's on it's way, or it has already been put into place; either way, God had already started getting the ball rolling in order to provide for what we would need, when we would be needing it; all we had to do was to ask! That's how God rolls! His ways are so much higher than ours, and His thoughts than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9), that we can never catch up with what He is doing, because He has already done it before we have even thought it out. Even when we do not ask anything of Him, He is still working things out all around us and through us; things that we can never really understand, He has already taken care of, just so we do not need to be concerned over whatever is was, or what might have become of it. So, how important do you think you are to God? He says, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee" (Jeremiah 1:5), don't you think He watches over you also? Sometimes the most powerful prayer that we can pray, comes in the form of praise and confirmation that God is in control; just as simple as saying, "No, I can not do that, I must obey God", as was that the case of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. You did not read about how they all three joined hands, and then started praying for God to deliver them; they simply took a stand for God being the one in control, so no matter what the king said, or what he might do, God was far more powerful than anything he could dish out. Did that just happen? and for who's benefit was that whole thing brought about? Well, in my case, it was one of the first Bible Studies that I went to after becoming a Christian, that I first was shown the power and the total confidence of trusting in God no matter what, and it was through this story in Daniel 3; so as far as I was concerned then, it was for me that God allowed or made it to happen, which ever way you want to consider it. But at the time, it was for everyone in that place, including Daniel, to see the power of God displayed, and to know, "There is no god like our God!!!"; so, go ahead and make my day... "For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many rebound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:15-18)