Praying Beyond Time: God Hears Every Prayer on Time

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Time is linear for us. God set it that way from the very beginning for us, days, weeks, years, etc. People live inside those boundaries.

But God?He lives outside of them.He is the Author of time, not bound by it.

Then God reshaped the way I see prayer.

This used to happen often to me, and I think many people can relate. 

I’d be scrolling online, where you don’t usually see or hear updates. I’d see a prayer request and stop to lift them up to God. Then I’d notice it was posted a day or so ago, sometimes even longer.

I used to feel bad and think that I was too late. I mean, I’d really, really feel bad about it, like I wasn’t there when they needed it the most.

Then one random day, it happened again, and I about spiraled myself down that path of feeling bad all over again.

The thought in my head was, if I prayed now, what was the point? I was already too late.

1. Now I’ve come to realize satan was using that.

2. God spoke and said, “Not with Me”

   
   

I’m not gonna lie.

That answer actually took me a little to figure out what He meant, but I did eventually figure it out. lol

First, no thought you have should ever stop you from praying to begin with.

Period. 

That was one thing I figured out right quickly. I was letting myself talk myself out of praying, and satan was having a heyday with that.

Second, as I said above, God is literally outside of time. He is not bound by our past, present, or future. To Him there is no such thing as too late. Every prayer is a connected one-on-one private moment with Him.

Now we may never know the outcome of our prayer, and sometimes we do, but prayer isn’t just for that person or situation. It’s for you to. You don’t build trust, faith, and hope on silent lips. 

But you can sure lose it on silent lips.

Every prayer is heard at exactly the right moment, for the right reason.

When we pray, even if we think it‘s too late, God receives it outside of our timeline and applies it with His perfect timing and for His glory.

So don’t hold back. Don’t second-guess. 

Pray anyway. Because with God, every prayer is on time.

“But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.” 2 Peter 3:8

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