How often do you pray? Do you pray all the time at school, at college, on the way home? Do you pray every night before you sleep? Do you pray once a week, on Sunday? How often people pray, is really between them and God, but I am constantly flabbergasted by people’s reaction to prayer. If God chooses not to answer our prayers in a way that we understand, what is our reaction? Are you like me and many others? Do you walk about being grumpy and doubting that prayer really works? Maybe you even say that prayer is a bunch of baloney and God doesn’t listen. Sometimes when we don’t know what God is doing and we see friends suffer, or things go wrong in our lives, it might seem that God isn’t listening. But that’s OK, our God can cope with a bit of grumpiness, he is bigger then us. But what about when God does answer our prayer, what is our reaction then? I bet like me, all to often, you simply forget to Thank God. Maybe, you even put it down to coincidence. You may say or think things like the guys in this passage. They claimed that Jesus hadn’t healed the blind man. They said things like, hey it’s not the same guy, even though truth stood in front of them. We are often no different, saying things like, well God didn’t really heal my mate, the doctors did that. Or, well it was a friend of mine, that helped me out when I asked God to help me with a problem, it’s just a coincidence that the problems gone away now. When in reality, we all know, that there are fewer coincidences in our lives and more Godincidences then we care to thank God for.
