My Father Knows

“Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” Matthew 6:8

Before you EVEN ask Him. We may not pray like we need this, but the ONE most important thing we need is a SAVIOR! My prayer list is quite long, including intercessions for my family, friends, my country, brothers and sisters who are sick, the crisis in Nicaragua, etc., but not one mention of me needing someone to save me. I do not have to ask for a Savior, God already provided Jesus long before I asked. 

The whole of His story in the Bible is primarily how much He loves us, and provides the perfect sacrifice required by His holiness, righteousness and justice. Without Jesus’ sacrifice, we would not have a single, solitary chance to enter heaven, a place where there is no sin, no spot, no blemish, no rotting, no decaying, no aging, no poverty, no want. Because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we are made holy once for all time (Hebrews 10:10). His blood is our entrance ticket to heaven if we but accept it. 

We can be confident if God provided this most essential of our needs, He will also make a way to answer our other needs as well. Jesus said in Matthew 7:7, “"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” So I will keep asking for what is in my prayer list, confident God has my perfect good in His heart. He desires to give us all that most wonderful of gifts, fullness of life. Sometimes His answers are wrapped in painful or perplexing circumstances, but if we keep in faith, we will see that God is weaving a most amazing tapestry for each one of us.