In our prayers, we often try to use God as some kind of heavenly vending machine, and we demand quick fulfillment of our prayer requests—or perhaps we should call them “prayer orders”!
When we pray in that way, we grow restless and upset if we don’t get the desired results. Our grumbling against God really does not hurt him, but we hurt ourselves spiritually when we grumble and complain.
Proper prayer is rooted in our relationship with God the Father and in our attitudes toward the people around us.
The Scriptures don’t say that all prayers will be fulfilled. We will not always get exactly what we want when we want when we put a dollar in the “prayer vending machine.” But we are promised the all-embracing peace of God, and that what we receive (or don’t receive) will be in our best interest.
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