Sometimes we find ourselves in situations where praying for deliverance does not bring results. We continually seek God's face and prayer for deliverance. How long this prayer continues varies between trials. When the prayer is finally answered, we believe that God did so because of our relationship with him. In other words, he answered our prayers because we are his children.
Albeit, we may be his children and because of that he is moved to answer our prayers, but what we must recognize is that answered prayer hinges more on God maintaining his reputation with man than on man's reputation with God.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. (Luke 11:8)
It was the importunity or embarrassment that would be faced that caused the friend to give loaves of bread in the middle of the night. It was not his friendship that moved him but the maintaining of his name that did. Likewise, God maintaining his name among men is of greatest importance to him.
So the next time you feel that because you are not the child of God that you expect yourself to be, remember that God also answers prayer to maintain his good name.
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