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There are times in our life when we learn to be patient and we wait for prayer to be answered. Why do we have to wait? There are many reasons but some people think that we should have all of our prayers answered immediately. Sometimes we pray for what is not really God's best but with our limited understanding, we desperately need many things.Sometimes God wants us to reflect on what we already have and focus on what is daily before us. Contentment can come with acceptance.
We can have many things but want still more or something different. The world calls out to us to take anything we can if we have opportunity. Sometimes God lets an opportunity be presented to us that would gratify and satisfy our wants and desires but then offers another path that asks sacrifice. We might have to step out in faith not knowing what's around the next corner. Can we follow our heart rather than our comfort needs? We also pray for healing or solutions to serious relationship problems or financial assistance through tough times.We pray for help for loved ones and for spiritual deliverance. Why does it seem at times that God doesn't hear these prayers? We know he really does hear them, he cares and he wants to help us but answers are not forthcoming. We agonize but it seems God turns a deaf ear to our pain. I believe that a lot of our answers are within ourselves. God may be waiting to see if we will grow up spiritually and take responsibility for our own solutions. He wants us to mature and develop into strong, faith filled people who will not back down on a stand for truth. Maybe we can speak words of power and truth and overcome the lies of the enemy with what God has already given us. Our thoughts and words become very powerful when we stand on what we know is true. Truth is the sword that slays the enemie's lies. Why would God do everything for us all the time? Why would he not want us to follow the example of our elder brother Jesus who pointed the way for us to follow? We have the power, why do we not use it? The only trouble we have is, sometimes we are caught up in our own desires and wants and are praying against the truth. If we align our words and thoughts with the enemy, we will reap troubles and destruction. If we will align ourselves with God and his love, we will reap his blessings. His first blessings are always related to our spiritual growth.He wants us cleansed, set free and growing into beautiful new creatures of love and light. Sometimes we fight this and it causes us pain. Sometimes pain comes because we are leaving old securities behind and it is not easy to shed them. Humans have a tendency to shy away from uncomfortable new ideas and outlooks too, so this is another cause of pain and problems as we try to avoid alternate paths that draw us out of our normal patterns. So maybe unanswered prayer is really a blessing in disguise. The time in-between when the prayer goes out and an answer returns to us is very important. What we do during that time concerns God more than what we think is more important, such as the answer to the prayer.He wants to see patience, contentment,acceptance and quietness in our spirit instead of fear and anxiousness. He doesn't want us to let the world dictate our emotional responses to events. He wants us to rest in confidence and faith in him instead of being in stress and anxiety over circumstances.So even in adverse conditions, we are still and respond to God's leading through our heart while many around us panic. Patience and acceptance creates contentment and quietness in our soul. Sometimes we feel hurt or pain as we wait in that in-between time for God to help us but we accept it as a passing thing as we wait for him to lift us to a higher place. That sacred place of stilling our hurt emotions and holding them within as a sacrifice is the empowering force that creates change in our lives.
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