Our prayer life can be one of the most challenging aspects of our Christian discipleship. We face difficulties in our everyday life, painful losses, tragedies, disappointments and shattered dreams. It may be we have expectations for a better future, desires for a (better) job, improvement in our relations. We pray to God, awaiting his response amidst his apparently prolonged silence. We cannot feel his presence and are more aware of his absence. In our problems we find no consolation in prayer and abandon prayer altogether.
But we can take confidence in praying because of Jesus who because his life was so in tune with God, praying for Lazarus to be raised from the dead said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me” (John 11:41). Jesus then cries out, “Lazarus come out!” and Lazarus came out from the grave (John 11:43-44). Lets us always thank God the Father because he always hears us when we pray.
