Marking Prayer Answers Tracing trie Answers to Our Praters as a Stimulus to Faitn Bj> GEORGE MULLER
After some time read over the mem orandum book and you will find how, again and again, it has pleased God to answer your prayers, and perhaps re garding matters about which you ex pected the answer to come; and soon you will -find the wondrous effect of this on your heart in increasing your love and gratitude to our-heavenly Father. The more careful you are in marking what you ask, and what God has given, the more distinctly you will be able to trace how again and again, it pleased God to answer your prayers; and more, you will be drawn out to God in love and gratitude. You will find precisely as the Psalmist found it when he says: “ I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.” We ought to love God, even though we have not answers to our prayers; but; all this will greatly increase our love; and it is not only once, but, if we mark the hand of God, we shall soon find that we have scores and hundreds of answers to prayer. And thus we shall be led to love Him more and more for all He has done. And, as we mark how we have been helped, and how gracious and bountiful our Father has been, and how He takes pleasure in listening to the supplications of His children, the heart will be filled increas ingly with love and gratitude to Him. Another effect of all this on the Psalmist, we find in the second verse: “ Because He hath inclined His ear to me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.” The more evidence we have of His power and of His willingness to help us, the more our hearts should be determined to call upon the Lord. The
LOVE the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.” (Psalm
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The Psalmist states that he loves Je hovah because He hdth heard his voice and his supplications. Now, this cannot be thq case with us except we mark the hand of God, and except we observe that He hath heard our supplications and that He hath answered our prayers. The Psalmist had marked the hand of God, and he says, “ I love Jehovah, be cause He hath heard my voice.” - Very few of God’s dear children are aware how much this marking of the hand of God, with regard to answers to prayer, has to do with increased love to their heavenly Father. We are so apt to leave unnoticed the hand of God, and to pass over what God has been pleased to do in answer to our prayer. I would particularly advise all, but especially the younger believers, to use a memorandum book in which they may note down on the one side the re quests which they bring before God. There are certain matters which God has laid on our hearts, and we should note them down. It would be helpful to us to write: At such-and-such a time. I began to pray for such-and-such a thing; and then to continue to pray with regard to this matter. If we do so, we shall find that sooner or later the prayer will be answered; and then let us mark on the opposite side that it has at such a time pleased God to an swer that prayer.
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