God answers prayer. He is faithful, always faithful. There are many promises to this effect throughout the Bible and Psalm 34 affirms, again, that God will answer the prayers of those who walk with him. The ‘walking with him’ part is the key though. It’s not that God will only answer you if you are walking with him. Certainly, God will answer us even if we have gone astray, but his goal will be to bring us back to his side. God is not our genie in the bottle. The promises of God apply to the purposes of God. So, God will always answer in a way that is consistent with the purpose he is working in and through us. His main priority is not the situation around you but the situation within you. God is more interested in how you are responding to your situation than with the effect your situation is having on you. Of course, he is indeed concerned with the hardships we suffer, but he knows that the most important thing is the character and faith we display in these times. In every situation, he wants us to come to him and the way he answers us in every situation will be designed to draw us closer to him more permanently. God wants to see relational progress before situational progress. You will indeed see God transform your outward life, but his focus is primarily on your inward life. The former will often be transformed as a result of the latter. If you pray, God will respond. He will respond in the way he sees best, and he is committed to giving you the absolute best.
Bring your immediate desires to God.
Read Psalm 34
