Genesis 30: 22-24: “And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.”
The main aim of prayer is contact with God rather than getting the thing that we ask for. We know that God has promised to give us what we ask for, if we satisfy the conditions of asking. John 15: 7 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” This isn’t just a blank cheque but requires that first we make sure that His words abide in us and we abide in Him. In James 4: 2, 3 “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” we find that we don’t ask from time to time and at other times we ask with improper motives. These things lead to not receiving. We should always take care to ask with the proper motives and then we will receive what we ask. Remember that Abraham prayed about having his own son with Sarah for twenty five years before Sarah gave birth to Isaac. The Apostle Paul asked the Lord to take away his thorn in the flesh three times but the Lord told Him to trust in His grace (2 Cor 12:7-9). We must remember Who is God and who is the creature when it is time to pray. However, in this case, Rachel prayed while her sister and the slave girls were having children and she finally had the child that she prayed for. She was so confident after this that the even believed, rightly, that she would have a second son. If we pray for a long time and nothing seems to happen then we can give thanks that the Lord that we have a chance to get to know Him better.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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