Asking and doubting or asking and not doubting?

There are true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ who ask and do not doubt that they are receiving an answer from the Lord.

A.  ELIJAH (First Kings 18:43)

Elijah did not doubt the answer to his prayer, because he commanded his servant seven times to go and look for the appearing of the rain clouds.

B.  ASAPH (Psalm 77:1)

Believing prayers brings results. Faith says with Asaph: “I will cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and he will give ear and hearken to me.” (The Amplified Bible)

C. JOHN (First John 5:14)

Faith says also with John: “This is the confidence we have an approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

D.  THE WIDOW WHO IS PERSISTENT (Luke 18:1-8)

Persistent prayer has a promise. We are thinking here of the widow and the unjust judge.

E.  JACOB (Genesis 32:26)

We are also thinking of Jacob and we hear him say: “‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.'”

F.  JOSHUA (Joshua 7:6)

And we are not forgetting Joshua who “fell facedown to the ground” and “remaining there till evening.” In doing so he turned the defeat into victory.

But there are also true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ who ask and doubt that the answer is coming.

A.  PETER ESCAPES FROM PRISON (Acts 12:15)

Here believers were praying for Peter, and when the girl (Rhoda) told them about his escape said: “‘You are out of your mind.'”

B.  ZECHARIAH (Luke 1:18)

“‘How can I be sure of this?'” asked Zechariah in Luke 1:18. Zechariah asked for a son, and when he was told of the birth of the son he doubted and asked: “”How can I be sure?'”

Are we belonging to the people who are not doubting or are we belonging to the people who are doubting?