Things you can't imagine

"Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' – Jeremiah 33.2-3

While this verse is obviously a promise to Jeremiah, it also has something to teach about the power of a prayer answering God. God told Jeremiah and the people to ‘call unto Me and I will answer you and show you mighty things which you cannot know.’

While that promise is specific the idea still carries on. Jesus said ‘men ought always to pray and not to faint.’ Paul wrote ‘pray without ceasing.’ James said ‘you have not because you ask not.’ John wrote ‘if you prayer according to God will He hears you and if He hears he answers.’

Notice that God did not say ‘call on Me and I will answer you and give you whatever you ask for.’ He doesn’t say ‘call on Me and I do whatever you say.’ He says ‘call on Me and I will show you great and mighty things that you can’t imagine.’

God is not a genie in a lamp that we can call on to get our wished granted. When we prayer we are depending in Him to do ‘great and mighty things’ even if we don’t understand what those things are.

So we can call on God. My let’s not limit Him to what we can imagine as an answer to prayer. Let’s let Him show us the great and mighty answers that we can’t even imagine.