God Already Knows...

Scripture:
Matthew 6:7-8 NIV Version

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. ⁸Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

            When I was a system analyst in a previous job we had monitoring system in place to monitor various pieces of equipment.  We monitored servers, switches, routers and even some desktop computers.  As a part of our monitoring system we kept tabs on all our VPN connections, virtual private networks.  All the fire stations connected back to the main county complex.  When a connection went down we knew it immediately.  Even as we worked on the problem trying to get them up as quickly as possible someone would call.  We would get the report station so in so is down.  Our reply was we know and are working on it, we will call when we are done.

            God already knows when we are having problems.  We call him in our prayers and there are times when his response is, I know and I am working on it for you.  We might not always see God working in advance but he does.  Sometime ago I was going to be audited by the IRS.  A year prior to the audit God was already working.  A friend of mine new someone that needed their computers worked on.  That person represented me during the audit.  God already knew that a need would be there.  So He prepared the way even though I didn’t know it.

            How many times in our lives has God laid the ground work to help us in our times of need?  How often can you look back only to see God’s hands had already been at work in your life?  As Mary Stevenson wrote in her poem Foot Prints In The Sand “The Lord replied, ‘The times when you have seen only one set of foot prints, is when I carried you.’”  Not only does God already know our needs before we do in the worse of times He picks us up and carries us.  God holds us tightly in His arms to keep us safe.  All we have to do is ask and allow him to work in our lives.

Prayer:
            God our Father in heaven, we pray to you for help in our times of need.  We ask that you take our worries.  Help us not to take our worries back.  Help us to grow in faith and trust You.  Thank you God for being there when we need you…