Charles Haddon Spurgeon, \u2018The Prince of Preachers\u2019, said: <\/p>\n
\u2018Believe God until\u2026 you can thank Him for the answer. If the answer still tarries outwardly, do not pray in such a way that it\u2019s evident you\u2019re not believing for it. Such a prayer in place of being a help will be a hindrance; and when you are finished praying you\u2019ll find that your faith has weakened, or has entirely gone. The urgency that you felt to offer this kind of prayer is clearly from self\u2026 It may not be wrong to mention the matter in question to the Lord again, if He is keeping you waiting, but be sure you do it in such a way that it implies faith. Do not pray yourself out of faith.<\/i> You may tell Him that you\u2019re waiting\u2026 still believing Him and therefore praise Him for the answer. There is nothing that so fully clinches faith, as to be so sure of the answer that you can thank God for it. Prayers that pray us out of faith deny both God\u2019s promise in His Word, and His whisper \u201cYes\u201d, that He gave us in our hearts. Such prayers are but the expression of the unrest of one\u2019s heart, and unrest implies unbelief\u2026 \u201cFor we which have believed do enter into rest.\u201d<\/i> (Hebrews 4:3 KJV) This prayer that prays ourselves out of faith frequently arises from centring our thoughts on the difficulty rather than on God\u2019s promise. Abraham \u201cconsidered not his own body\u2026 he staggered not at the promise of God.\u201d<\/i> (Romans 4:19\u201320 KJV) May we watch and pray that we enter not into the temptation of praying ourselves out of faith.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, \u2018The Prince of Preachers\u2019, said: \u2018Believe God until\u2026 you can thank Him for the answer. If the answer still tarries outwardly, do not pray in such a way that it\u2019s evident you\u2019re not believing for it. Such a prayer in place of being a help will be a hindrance; and when you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}