Praying Women By Sheila WalshSample

Day 4

Pray When God Seems Silent

One of the greatest challenges to a life of faith and prayer is to keep praying when it feels as if God is silent. You’re waiting and waiting and God is doing nothing, at least nothing you can see. 

Do you still believe He loves you? When answers don’t come, do you still believe He is for you? Jesus asked if He will find faith among us when He returns. Will He? Do you believe God is in control? Do you believe He has a perfect plan for your life? Do you believe His timing is perfect?

Until we settle how we will wait in the silence, we will be unsettled in our lives. When we determine to trust God in the silence, our faith in who He is grows stronger. Our witness becomes more powerful. I had a Scottish friend, Angus, who prayed for his wife’s salvation for more than forty years. When I asked him if he ever felt like giving up he said, “He’s never failed me yet!” When we choose to place our hope in God, we have been promised that this hope will not disappoint. Angus’s wife accepted Christ at her husband’s funeral. When she saw the church packed with those who loved Angus and heard the compelling message about the One who had led him all his days, she finally bowed, and his Savior became hers too.

I don’t know where you are in the waiting. I don’t know who you are, but our Father does. One of the most healing things I do in times of God’s silence is to meditate on and pray His Word, which I’ll talk about tomorrow.

A PRAYER WHEN GOD SEEMS SILENT

Father,

I kneel now in belief and ask You to help my unbelief. Sometimes Your silence is more than I can bear. Sometimes Your silence makes me feel that You don’t love me, don’t see me, don’t care for me. But now by faith, I choose to trust that You are with me. You are my help. You are my hope. Meet me here in the silence. Let my life reflect Your faithfulness. I long to feel Your presence, but I trust that You are with me. I let go of my plan B and wait for You here. I wait for You. I wait. Amen.