The Repeated Miracle: God Hears

Recently on the Mark Prater podcast, Mark shared about the practice and miracle of prayer. Here is a clip from that conversation with Ben Kreps. The full podcast is linked below.

One of my favorite expository commentators is Dale Ralph Davis, and he writes this in his commentary on the book of Judges.

He says, "Yahweh's hearing, God's hearing, is the most crucial matter for all prayer. When God listens to our voice, we must never respond with a yawn. We will trivialize prayer whenever we forget the repeated miracle. It involves the gracious condescension of the kingdom of glory, who stoops down, stoops down to listen to our verbs and nouns, our adverbs and questions, our groans and tears."

That's a wonderful quote because it reminds us of this repeated miracle every time we go to God in prayer; that he stoops down and he listens to us and then he answers our prayers according to his good plans and his goodwill. That is an amazing thing that we can't trivialize, that should never become routine. The fact that God hears us and acts on our prayers in just wonderful.