Since you were a child, whenever your back was against the wall and you needed help, you learned to ask for assistance. This is all good and well for the child, but somewhere along the way to adulthood, you lost that ability. Now, that you are not a child, you find it hard to ask someone to help you in your time of need.
When it comes to asking God for help, so often you fail to do so, until there is no one else to turn to. You are strong and self-sufficient. You can handle the situation, and if the situation gets harder, then you just work harder to make it happen. This gives you a sense of accomplishment.
That all works well, until something happens that is beyond your control. No matter how long you try or how hard you try, you are up against insurmountable odds. W. Graham Scroggie has some wise counsel at that time in your life: “Without time for prayer, nothing can be accomplished.” You know you need to pray, but it is not until you take the time to pray, that a remedy comes in your life.
Jesus does a miracle and notices that His disciples wonder how in the world it happened. In talking to the disciples about prayer, He says: “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matthew 21:22). We snuff out the answer to many of our prayers, because we, deep down inside, do not believe the prayer will be answered by the Lord.
Next time you need a little help, do not ask someone for help. Go immediately to your Father and make your request made known to Him. Like Scroggie said, make time for prayer. After that, take the Lord Jesus’s encouragement and believe it will be answered. Prayer is the little help that you so desperately need!
