God has given us permission to bring everything to him in prayer. Nothing is too big, nothing too small. He has promised that he will hear us; he has asked us to come boldly.
What we ask in faith as we pray, we shall receive, he says.
Faith is confidence. Faith does not command. In confidence and trust it leaves all in God’s hand. Faith acknowledges that we are shortsighted and that we do not know for what we should pray. Faith clings to the wisdom of God. It knows that God knows best what we need. Therefore the prayer of faith contains an “according to your will.”
The prayer of faith leaves everything in the Father-hands of God and from that moment knows that it is God who has assumed responsibility in our case.
Hans Edvard Wisløff (1902—1969) was a Norwegian theologian and writer. He was also the Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland from 1959 until his death in 1969.
Wisløff, H.E., Quiet Moments on the Way Home. Fergus Falls, MN: Faith & Fellowship Press, 1993.