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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
When I Don't See Answers to My Prayers
Have you ever prayed and prayed and prayed about a situation, a person, a need, or a dream and still have not seen an answer to your prayers?
When it seems as though our prayers have gone unanswered for a long time, we may feel like giving up or becoming upset with God or losing heart instead of standing strong in the waiting time. Losing heart means that you have been hurt deeply enough that you no longer have the strength, ability, motivation or hope to keep on praying. Losing heart means being disappointed for so long that you start to believe nothing is ever going to change.
However when we praise God at the first sign of disappointment and loss of heart, he will open our eyes to the truth and help us see things from a perspective closer to His own.
Whenever we have a dream in our life that seems to go unfulfilled and there is no way to make it happen, we need to worship God in the face of it. When hope that this thing can ever be brought to life completely dies, we need to praise God for His resurrection power. The Bible tells us that not only can God bring to life things that are dead, but we are to prepare for that possibility because of who He is and what he does.
When we become discouraged or defeated over unanswered prayer, we can turn our sorrow into joy through singing praise. When we do, heavy chains of despair are broken. Prayer is not telling God what to do. It's sharing our heart and making our requests known to Him. He will then answers in accordance with His will. We are not worshipping God to obtain His blessings. That's not really worshipping God; that's worshipping the blessings. We also have to remember that His timing is not ours. Often He holds off answering our prayers for a time so that we can know with absolute certainty that it is He who is making things happen. He holds back until all hope in anything else but Him is dead.
When we don't praise God, we shut off the possibilities that He can birth something new in us. So if your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may already been answered, but just not the way you wanted or expected them to be, so you are not seeing the answer yet.
Adapted from: The Prayers That Changes Everything by Stomie Omartian.
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