Call upon the Father

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The work and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross has enabled us as believers to call upon Father God in prayer, and He will listen to us. You may see that in the Psalms, in various prophesies in the Bible, including Jeremiah 29:12. As His children grafted into the family through the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, we have the privilege and honour to reach out to the Creator, our Heavenly Father, in Jesus’s name.

Jeremiah 29 NIV – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

The assurance is that if we seek Him with all our hearts, meaning genuinely and sincerely, we will find Him. When we pray for others, He will listen. Like Jesus feeding the 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes, God is able to listen to and reach out to the multitude simultaneously. For He is omnipresent. There could be millions of us, and yet He is personal to each and every one of us. The challenge, of course, is to make all things work for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. The sovereign, general, and specific will of God working in unison to bring about a result in the natural realm even as we reach out to God in the spiritual. We pray that Your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven.

This morning, do not be afraid to call upon the Father. Be assured that He will listen to us. He makes all things beautiful in His time. Life may be harsh, but His will is perfect and satisfying. Trust in Him. Place our hopes in Him. He will make our paths straight even as we heed His Word as a lamp unto our feet. He is the good shepherd, and we are the sheep of His pasture!