This a look back at a read through of Luke that I did a few years ago.
Next up? The good news according to Dr Luke.
For 400 years there is silence from heaven. No prophets, no revelation. The people of God carry on. They continue to pray and worship. It becomes routine
Worship can become routine. We do it because we do it because that’s what we do. Then something happens. Last week our power went out right before service started. It broke up the routine and we had to decide to worship not because it’s what we do but because we want to connect with the God of the universe, with the great God of mercy, with the God who loves us enough to die for us.
Zechariah was doing his job, his routine and a messenger of the great God he was serving showed up and had an answer to his prayer. It’s what we should expect. We should expect God to answer. He is listening. He is aware. He is watching and waiting for His perfect timing. Sometimes the routine becomes the thing. We forget that there is a God and a relationship with this God behind all the trappings.
I guess what I’m getting out of this is don’t give up praying. Keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking. We have a God who hears our prayers and will answer them. Sometimes the answer is NO, and sometimes it is WAIT. What’s the difference? Time.
What was the prayer? I think there were 2 prayers. The first was for a child, and specifically a son. They’d prayed all through their marriage and then his wife’s body aged out. No more chances…? And yet With God comes the answer. They will have a boy. His name is to be John. The name means “God is gracious “.
The second prayer, a prayer that many people have prayed, Lord save us. God have mercy on us and send us a deliverer. John would be the one who would pronounce the arrival of a deliverer, his deliverer, our deliverer, the capital D deliverer, the messiah, our redeemer.
Yes God hears our prayers.
Yes God answers our prayers.
There are people that I have prayed for to get saved for over a decade with no change. There are others who did decide to follow Jesus. So I keep on praying and believing that God is hearing me and that someday he will take away the barrenness in this relationship and bring new life.
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