Voicemail

Voicemail. Does anyone still leave messages on voicemail anymore?  If you call someone and they do not answer, do you leave a message or just hang up? I was trying to call a company today to make some changes to my account and the call went all the way to voicemail the first three times I called. I didn’t leave a message because I didn’t know if it would be checked or not, so I just kept calling back until they answered. I finally got through on the fourth try and made the changes that needed to be made.

Why are we hesitant to leave a voicemail when someone doesn’t answer our call?  Is it because we don’t know if our voicemail will ever be heard and we will have to call back again anyway?  It made me think of our prayer life as Christians. When we pray, do we have the fear that maybe God is not listening and will not answer our prayers fast enough, so we keep calling back until we get an answer?  God hears our prayers if we are in fellowship with Him and if our request aligns with His will. “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” - 1 John 5:14-15.

Our fellowship with God is strengthened through our prayer life with Him. First, by repenting and asking for forgiveness of our sin. Second, by our seeking His will in our life instead of seeking to align God’s will with our desires. Finally, our relationship with God is strengthened when we go to Him in prayer for the needs of others before ourselves. “You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.” - 2 Corinthians 1:11.

God does not have a voicemail, He hears every one of our prayers as Christians if we go to Him with a clean heart and by faith. “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith." - Matthew 21:22.

Have a great day and God bless.