You Are the Answer

 "Are you willing to become part of the anwser to your prayer?"

If so,

"Just how far are we willing to go in obeying God's call?"

These are serious and hard questions that reach way, way down into our heart's inner sanctums.  They reach to our core and knock at our sincerity.  How genuine are we?!

Praying can be the 'easy' part.  It does not take us into the danger zones, nor get our hands too dirty - so to speak.

But it will come to a point, if we are honest with ourselves, when the Holy Spirit nudges us and we get the feeling, "praying is not enough".

Ah, then are we willing to obediently go the second mile?

It can be ought when we discover, 

"you are the answer to your own prayers".  

And we sit rather stunned, "I am the answer!!"

But we have asked the Lord to work on behalf of whichever people we have been praying forr.  His answer is, "you."  Will we say like Isaiah once said, 

"Here am I!  Send me" (see Isaiah 6:8).

When you see how Nehemiah was activated to pray when he heard the news of the wall of Jerusalem being still just a pile of rubble, he prayed and then was put into action and worked wonders on behalf of the citizens of Jerusalem.  You can read the story in the book of Nehemiah.

These are questions and strong nudges of challenge and encouragement from Brother Andrew and Al Janssen in their booklet PRAYER The Real Battle.  And I like a quote they included from Oswald Chambers.

"It is not so true that "Prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me, and then I change things; consequently we must not ask God to do what He has created us to do."

So we believers in Jesus Christ need to prayerfully ask ourselves,

"Am I willing to be the answer to my own prayer?"

Then be obedient to what the Lord has asked us to do.  By God's grace and the empowering of the Holy Spirit, let's go do our God-given job.

                                                   ~  ERC  July 2026  ~

Based on Nehemiah 1:1-4 ESV.  Also, PRAYER The Real Battle by Brother Andrew and Al Janssen.

Sing, Onward Christian Soldiers, along with and Make My life a Prayer to You, along with Keith Green.