Hello, This is Michael Besson. Today I am going to talk about the lack of patience we have while waiting for God to answer our prayers. Every person reading this today has some unanswered prayers that you are waiting for God to answer. For some, it may be a prayer about finances, for others, it may be a prayer about healing, and for still others, it may be a prayer regarding marriage. No matter what the specific need is, everyone has something to pray about and are waiting for an answer from God.
The biggest mistake I see people make who are waiting on God for an answer is they start drifting away from God. When you are waiting on God to answer you that is the time to press into God not pull away from God. But we humans are impatient. Today when we have our cell phones, FedEx, and palm pilots, we don't want to wait even one second for ANYTHING. That includes having our prayers answered! So we get impatient when God doesn't respond to our prayers like he is our personal concierge, our assistant who we give our "to do" list to in the morning and expect it completed by 5 pm.
God’s Time-Line
God is the CREATOR, we are HIS CREATION! Does the clay tell the potter what to do? God in His infinite grace and mercy allows us to bring our petitions to Him, gives us unlimited access to His throne room to share our hearts' desires, but that doesn't mean God is obligated to answer our prayers the way we want or in the time we want. A thousand years is as a day to the Almighty. While waiting an hour, a day, a week, a month, even a year may seem like a LONG TIME to us, it is the blink of an eye in relationship to eternity. The fact is God is not bound by time/space as we are.
However, when God does not respond in our timing, we get mad at God. We blame whatever we are facing on God for not stepping in as we had requested. We stop reading the Word and praying. We stop going to church. We start slowly drifting away from God and soon we get so far from Him that we become an easy target for Satan. He lies to us that we have sinned too much to be worthy of God answering our prayers and that we are fools to believe God could answer our prayers even if He wanted to.
During this time we face the daily temptations life brings our way and in our weakened state we give in to the temptation. We end up having an affair, end up drinking or gambling. We end up doing drugs. We end up being mean to our spouse and children.
Trekking Back
It is at this point that we make our way back to the Lord. Like the prodigal son we humble ourselves and ask for forgiveness. We get back into our daily discipline of praying and reading the Word. We get back to church and rekindle our close, daily, intimate relationship with the Lord. God is merciful as He not only forgives us and welcomes us back home, but helps us to overcome the damage we have done during the time we were away.
Let me share with you today what you should be doing while you are waiting for God to answer you. You press in even closer to the Lord! While you are waiting for God to respond, you keep praying every day, pray even more. While you are waiting on God to respond, you keep reading the Word, read even more. While you are waiting on God to respond, you keep going to church, go even more.
WHILE YOU ARE WAITING ON GOD TO RESPOND, YOU CONTINUE TO BE ABOUT YOUR FATHER'S BUSINESS, SINCE AS YOU ARE ABOUT HIS BUSINESS HE WILL BE ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS!
There is your priceless gem for the day. Read it again. Read it over and over.
I know how frustrated you are waiting for God to respond. The key to finding peace as you wait is to know that God knows you and your needs better than you do. Keep serving Him faithfully. As you are obedient and faithful in your service, you will wake up one day and realize God has responded. It may not be the exact way you wanted, it may not be the exact answer you wanted, but God will respond.
After I read this, I felt led to share it today with people that follow me on the Internet. I pray it gives you some hope and direction to follow.
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