The Answer To Our Prayers

I do not know about you, but there have been many times in my Christian walk that I asked God for something, only to be disappointed in the end because I got the answer I expected. This feeling becomes a problem, because it starts to eat away at your faith and makes me question God's love for me. And once we do that, more cynical and angry I became.

I start to blame God for the problems in my life and ask him why he keeps ignoring my prayers. But then I realize that maybe it is God who makes a mistake. Maybe, just maybe, I'm the one who has it all wrong.

Most of us have probably heard the statement: "God works in mysterious ways." Ecclesiastes 11:05 says, "As I do not know which way the wind is, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so I do not know the work of God who makes everything."

the truth is that we can not understand how God does what he does. And there are times when we pray for something, God begins to answer our prayers, but we simply do not recognize. We then get mad and say, "God is never the answer to my prayers", and sure enough, those doubts to prevent God from the end of what has been started, and we do not receive a response.

When Jesus was explaining how the kingdom of God works, he said: "The kingdom of God like a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep at night and rise by day, and the seeds should sprout and grow, he do not know how Because land yields crops by itself. knife first, and then head, then full grain in the head, but when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because je.žetva has come. "(Mark 4:26-29 )

Although I am not a farmer, and I do not even like gardening, it makes much sense to me. I can not imagine a farmer sowing his seed, be from day to day, and then getting upset when the first thing to see a few knives. farmer understands that plants go through a maturation process. blades that pop up at first did not end the story, there's more to come and the harvest will reach until he give up on it.

But when it comes to my prayers I often get this wrong. Part of the reason may be that I was fooled into thinking that all the answers to prayer are the immediate and complete. In other words, I believe that my faith will result in instant answers exactly what I wanted. But it's just not true.

If the seed for sowing tells us about how the kingdom of God works, then I have to learn from it will be time, and it is probably true for almost all of my prayers, I will have to be patient and čekatipotpun answer will come. It will not be immediately, it will take time and I should not get discouraged and give up hope just because I keep looking for answers and all you see is some stupid little blades sticking up from the soil.

To be more practical, let's say that I prayed for a new car. I'm being bold about it and believing that God can just as easily give me my dream car that he can give me an old clunker that will simply get me from point A to point B. I ask the question: What would be "cutting edge" look like?

We all need to realize that God is not just going to drop shiny new car in our laps. Moreover, the fact that it does not work that way, it will be very painful. So, if getting a new car will be a process rather than an immediate answer, what can happen, you'll see along the way?

For example, we could start to see cars that are similar to the one we want. They May Have there all along and we were not aware of them, but asking for one, we begin to see them everywhere we go. What we should do at this point is to give God thanks for the answer to our prayers. He is reminding us that He is working on our car making us aware of a car like that.

We also find that our current car has more life in it than we originally thought. Some people are upset about this, and one guy, even a rusty old car parked behind his house and shot full of holes with a rifle, which is a bit extreme way of killing the car. But often times God will extend the life of one we have and we might even clean it, polish it and make it look nice, let us put in a good mood on the transport of God has already given to us.

The first signs that we see God answer our prayers will rarely look something like a final answer. But it is up to us to recognize that God is doing. We are not to "despise the day of small things", because that's usually how God creates. Did not begin with the universe and a complete ending, instead it starts little by little, to bring order to chaos and to form what we see of the things that we do not recognize. (Hebrews 11:03)

When you ask God for something, especially when it is probable that it will take some time to answer will come, they begin to look with joyful anticipation for the knife, and then his head, and I know that soon "harvest", the answer looking for, will come.