He Is A Sovereign God
“No matter how intimate your prayer life is, there are times when it seems that God is not answering. Like author C.S. Lewis described upon the death of his wife, āthe heavens are leaden.ā Sometimes, I feel like the Lord is not near when trials come my way. I feel like heās far off, that heās broke, and that his resources are rather limited. But that doesnāt stop me from still crying out, āHelp, Lord!ā
Some things that come your way are not Godās will or plan for your life. Your enemy planned them, and heās committed to destroying you. But also, some things are allowed to come to pass that are for our benefit. We can thank God for those things in the sense that he is a sovereign God, and he intends to build up our character and our inner being.”
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 16.
