How Fast Is Prayer?

Several of us were ziplining, and, bringing up the rear, I had plenty of time to observe. We were sandwiched between two instructor-guides. One would lead the way zipping down to the next platform. When each successive member of our group arrived at his platform, he would give the cable a quick shake to signal the guide at the previous platform to send the next traveler. His whipping the cable sharply up and down sent an undulating wave traversing the length of the line. One platform on which we were perched was 1,500 feet from the next, which, hidden by trees, was not visible. Although the distant guide was unseen, soon I could see the jiggling of the near end of the cable as the signaling wave arrived. I don’t know how fast the wave traveled along the cable. There was a delay of a second or so between the sending and receiving the signal. But, what if the cable had been a long, rigid rod without the sag, and the guide had have pulled or pushed the rod held by the other guide on the previous stop? There would have been no delay between the sending and receiving of the signal. The communication between sender and receiver would be almost immediate slowed only by the time it would take for the sensation to travel the receiver’s nerve path and be processed by his brain. That’s fast communication. Just think. The sun is 93 million miles away. Nothing is supposed to travel faster than light, which travels at 186,000 miles per second. At that rate it takes eight minutes for light to travel from the sun. However, supposing the sun would not incinerate him, let’s say Joe stood on its surface holding one end of a rigid rod, and Bill, standing on earth, held the other end. Now suppose that Joe gave the rod a sharp jerk. Would not Bill immediately feel the movement? Would not Joe’s signal have traveled faster than the light leaving the sun? Physics may debunk this thought experience, but it is still something to contemplate. I don’t know how far away heaven and the Father that abides there is. Perhaps, the “far” between us and God isn’t linear but the distance between dimensions—or between relationships. However, far, I know of something that travels faster than light, and even faster than the movement of the rod between Joe and Bill. It is prayer. Heaven must be further away than the sun—dimensionally or linearly. Faith is the connection between our hearts and God, and prayer is the signal. Prayer is immediate. I pray; He hears. Let me tell you how fast prayer travels. Prayer gets to God before we even utter it. He knows what we have need of before we even ask. As distinctly as I saw the signals traveling along the zipline cable arriving from the other side, so God takes note of our prayers from our end directed to Him. That’s one distance I wouldn’t want to zipline.

How Fast Is Prayer?

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