He Heard Me the First Time

Sole' Amari / Glenda Conner
Jul 18
2 min read

🥖 Daily Bread: He Heard Me the First Time

Scripture Anchor:📖 Matthew 6:7 — “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”📖 Romans 9:12 — “It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.”

✨ The Message

There’s a tender correction flowing from Heaven today—and it’s not a rebuke, it’s a release. A reminder for the weary intercessor, the stretched soul, the one who’s been wrestling in prayer trying to say the “right thing” to get the right result:

God heard you the first time.

Not because you crafted a perfect sentence.Not because you repeated the request 47 times.Not because you wept harder this round.

But simply because He’s your Father, and when His child speaks, He listens.

This is what Matthew 6:7 uncovers: an invitation to drop the performance, shed the fear of being overlooked, and return to pure communion. The Father isn’t asking for pretty words—He’s asking for present hearts.He hears the prayer beneath the prayer. The cry you never said out loud. The confusion you never wrote down. The ache you couldn’t articulate.

🔄 But Why the Delay?

That’s where Romans 9:12 speaks.

This verse pulls back the curtain on God's sovereign choice—how He sometimes selects the unexpected, disrupts the natural order, and reverses the roles in the story.

“The elder shall serve the younger.”

In other words, you weren’t next in line—but He chose you anyway.You didn’t grow up knowing the rules—but He anointed you to lead.You didn’t do everything “right”—but He still whispered, “Mine.”

This isn’t just about answered prayer. It’s about divine appointment.You are living proof that God does not pick based on performance or protocol—He picks based on purpose.

💡What Today’s Bread Means:

You don’t have to beg.
You don’t have to rehearse.
You don’t have to fit into “their” sequence.

He already heard you.He already chose you.He’s already shifting the story in your favor.

So rest today, not in what you can say—but in what God has already said.

🙏🏾 Daily Prayer

Father, thank You that You hear me before I finish speaking.Thank You that I don’t have to perform to be heard, or qualify to be chosen.Let my heart rest in the knowing that You are not late, absent, or blind to my prayers.Remind me that divine reversal is not rebellion—it’s Your redemption plan unfolding.

Today, I let go of panic and pick up peace.

Amen.