Is it really hard to believe...

that God answers our prayers?

Last night, I crawled into bed about 12:30 AM or so after watching the men's gymnastics from Beijing and doing some late night laundry. I was trying to get comfortable, but not having any success. For about the last week, I have been soar from an attempted dive for a volleyball during our concert in the park. I don't know what happened, but it has been bugging me ever since. So thinking about how annoying this little injury. While laying there, I thought why don't I pray for a healing. He created the universe and he has raised the dead, surely this isn't too big for Him. So I prayed in confidence that he was going to heal it. But upon finishing my prayer, I found myself surprised that it didn't hurt.

Mark 11:24 says "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." It shouldn't come as a surprise that prayer gets answered. But how often do we pray and really have the faith to believe that it will be answered? God wants to answer us when we pray. It is who he is; we just have to trust that he will come through.