Praying with faith

This is an excerpt from my post this morning on the Cross Point Bible Reading Blog, where we are reading through the Bible together this year using the Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan.

Acts 12:15-16 Apparently, fervent prayer (verse 5) is not necessarily prayer that is full of faith, since the people who had gathered to pray for Peter had an easier time believing that Peter's angel was outside their door than that Peter himself was there. Fortunately, God does not wait until we are full of faith to answer our prayers. There are times when we pray mostly because we know we should pray, rather than because we really expect God to answer our prayers. But let's start praying with the kind of faith that isn't so surprised when God grants what we have asked for.