I got a long distance call for computer help today. It was from a former youth group member, now a young man. He apologized for calling every time he had a computer problem. (He calls about once or twice a month.) He knows he is a bother.
Yet every time he calls, I get a warm feeling. For these annoying calls are an answer to prayer. When he was in high school, he had a terrible car accident. Head Injury. Doctors held little hope for him ever waking up, much less walking or talking. At his bedside visiting him, I felt so helpless. Yes, I prayed with him and his family and read him messages sent by his friends, but for weeks, months, there was no reaction. I was so frustrated. My prayer was that I could do something for him that I knew was helping him, something that got through. A selfish prayer, I admit.
In time, due to prayer and the love of his family and friends, he woke up and slowly with years of hard work learned to walk, talk, and just recently drive again! Oh, yes, he learned to use his computer and cell phone.
Where before he laid in bed beyond my best efforts to help, now he calls me and asks for help that I can give him. Thank you God, for those bothersome phone calls. It was just what I asked for.
Jesus Teaches About Prayer
“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” - Luke 11:9-10
Hope You're Ready when God Answers Your Knock!