Pray Prayers Which Get Answers

"....We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects...."  (Colossians 1:9b-10a)

I prayed a prayer the other day something like this.  "Father, help me to pray prayers which get answers."  Have you ever noticed just how many prayers go unanswered?  Just take stock of your present prayers, and prayers which you have prayed over the years.  Compare those answered and unanswered prayers.  It just could be that the deepest longings and most desperate prayers of your life time could be still in the "unanswered" column.  Now I know that the religious airways and pulpits of the world are filled with people trying to reveal their great "wisdom secrets" as to how you can get anything you want from God.  But why then are so many hearts still broken, so many of their deepest gut wrenching issues still unresolved? 

I'm sorry if I do not have a fully satisfying, "deep" answer to this question.  But I do see something in our text.  I see here the Heart of Jesus, our Savior seeking Father's will and purposes.  Everything Jesus said and did was "to please Him in all respects."  His Life was "caught up" in our Father, not Himself.  "I and Father are One." 

I submit to you today that if your heart is "to please [Father] in all respects," to say, "I and the Blessed Trinity are one in purpose," you just may see a real breakthrough and breakout-----------------------
a breakthrough in the war with doubts, fears, and brokenness of disappointment, and a breakout into the "knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding," a breakout from your prayers into those prayers which get answers.

Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to pray prayers which get answers. Amen. 
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