Impatience comes into all of our hearts. We pray and expect answers to come soon, but often times they don’t. What we fail to realize is that God is doing a deeper work within our hearts and souls, preparing us for the answer. Perhaps He’s trying to get us to rest in His timing and trust His process. Even deeper yet, is He trying to teach us that His way is better than our way, and that our prayer request isn’t what is needed right now? Trusting Him requires patience.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in ALL your ways acknowledge (submit to) Him and He will direct your path.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Elisabeth Elliott has a quote that is so good! “He makes us wait. He keeps us on purpose in the dark. He makes us walk when we want to run, sit still when we want to walk, for He has things to do in our souls that we are not interested in.” These deep things are where we grow in patience, trust and character, and He matures us in our walk. But it’s hard.
“Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done,” should be the way in which every prayer request is ended. In humility, it dethrones our insistence of what “needs” to happen, and gives God the trust and headship He is so worthy of.
Don’t be disheartened, dear one, He hears every prayer you pray. Trust in Him as He works “all things together for good,” to bring growth to the one who prays, as well as blessing and answers for whom you pray.
He is trustworthy.
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