Helping Our Prayers To Be Answered

 Helping Our Prayers To Be Answered by George Müller (1805-98)

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” (Matt. 7:7-8).

The promise uttered here by the mouth of our precious, adorable Lord Jesus Christ, with regard to prayer, is as full, as large, as deep, as precious as we could only wish it, and if it had been left to us, beloved in Christ, that we should make a promise for ourselves regarding prayer, I do not know how we could have enlarged it more than it is given to us here.

We should in childlike simplicity seek to lay hold of this Word; for that is FAITH – to lay hold of the Word of God; and to receive what God says to be true without questioning it, just resting on it.

Many persons think that faith consists in particularly deep feeling.  This is a great mistake.  He has the strongest faith who most is able in childlike simplicity to receive the Word of God as the truth of God, and to rest on that Word, to be assured that God will act according to His Word (1 Thess. 2:13).

The man and the woman who are able thus to receive the Word of God – thus to rest on it – these are the strongest in faith.  And that is just what we have to aim at continually – that we are satisfied with the Word of God, that we receive the Word of God, and that we say to ourselves: “It will be so – simply because God has said it.”


Not Our Worthiness – But His!

Another deeply important point is that we put aside all expectation on the ground of our own merit and worthiness – that we instead plead the merit and worthiness of the Lord Jesus Christ as the ground to have our prayers answered.  As the New Testament generally expresses it, we ask “in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Col. 3:17; John 15:16).

Now, just as the sinner cannot get to heaven on the ground of his own merit and worthiness, but can expect to be admitted into the presence of God only on the ground of the merit and suffering of our precious, adorable Lord Jesus Christ, by faith in His name, so we, the children of God, in coming to God in prayer, have to put aside all thought of our own supposed merit and worthiness.

We have to disown ourselves, have to cling and cleave alone to Jesus Christ, have to appear before God as such who are united to the risen Jesus Christ, who hide themselves in Him, who, so to speak, put Christ forward and come hiding themselves in Him, and ask God that, on the ground of the merits and worthiness of the Lord Jesus Christ, God would be pleased to answer their prayers.

Now here is our comfort: The precious Lord Jesus Christ is worthy to receive everything at the hands of God His Father, who is willing to give it to Him on the ground of His mediatorial work because of the perfection of His services, because of His spotless holiness.

If thus we approach God in prayer, then we have the fullest reason to expect an answer to our prayer.

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  1. Kevin Bernard5 November 2025 at 12:10

    God ALWAYS answers prayer. It may not be what we expect, but if we hold on to our faith, I guarantee (from personal experience) that it ALWAYS works out for good!

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