GOD NEVER FAILS
patience has always been my own personal issue. waiting and not knowing how long it will take for me to get there or for me to get what i want and pray for is something God is still trying to teach me. for the past couple weeks ive been complaing and asking God, asking my best friend Chris and my cousin, why? why is it taking so long? why? why God? when? when are you going to show me a sign? are you even listening to me? can you hear me? why arent you doing anything? i would get the same thing each day, nothing. nothing. nothing. i hear the same things from everyone, you need to be patient. you need to wait. you need to let it go and leave it to God. i would answer, yes, i know that. i know i do but i just want to know when and how long! i get the same response from everyone, no. you cant do that. you know what that means? you dont fully trust God. i kept silent & i thought, what? how can you say that? no way. i trust my God. i dont want God to think im doubting him. no. it hurt when i heard that. me not trust God? the God im in love with?

last night, i prayed to God. i cried my heart to him. God, i dont know what to do anymore. please help me. you know patience has always been my weakness from the beginning. i dont want to be confused. please give me patience. i want to trust you and im going to leave it all to you. even though this is what i want, only you know whats best for me, for me and my kids. you know whats in my heart. you know my hearts desires.

this morning, i wake up. first thing i do i talk to Him. God, its a new day, help me get through this day. please give me patience, i dont want to worry about time anymore. i took a deep breath and left it at that. i was hungry, hungry for Gods word. when that happens i always go on google and find verses that will feed my heart and soul and thats exactly what i did. i needed to hear about patience and prayer. i click on the last link on the site and i come across something. it was someone own personal christian website. they had written a blog about prayer. they titled it: Prayer isn't a magical genie in a lamp. God is talking to me again. i read it and read it. i said, okay, this is a blog about some girl about what she believes about God. her own thouught. yes it is all true but i want Gods words. God heard me. at the end of this ladys story it said this:
“He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.” Psalm 145:18,19

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Prayer isn’t a magical genie in a lamp.
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So often we expect God to be like that genie. We expect him to answer the prayer right away and if He doesn’t do it right away then we get frustrated, impatient, or start questioning why my prayer hasn’t been answered yet. Does God not want to answer our prayers? He sure does want to answer them!! He just might not do it the way that we expect Him to. His way is so much better and it is exactly what we need and when we need it.
Do you lay in your bed and start sounding out prayers as if you are snapping your fingers and demanding God to answer them? I always picture God just like me with my kids. There is a point where demanding and no heartfelt asking just needs a little reminding that we don’t always get what we want and when we want it. I can see God just standing there with His hands on His hips and saying, “Really, again with the same prayer? Child, I love ya, but no, that’s not the way I am going to do it. Remember this is not Burger King and you can’t have it your way.”
And although the genie in Aladdin made it look so easy and when Aladdin asked for something, he got it right away, we have to remember that God doesn’t always work like that. Now granted there have been times in my life where God has answered my prayers right away and I knew that they were straight from God, but they don’t always come the same way everytime. It is God’s greatest desire to give you your heart’s desires, but He knows what is best for you, and possible lessons that might need to be learned from your waiting. Let’s face it, if we always got what we wanted, then the times that God does answer our prayers, wouldn’t be remarkable or even a miracle. And when they are answered we can say, “Thank You God, You are truly amazing and I know that was from You!!”

Story of the day: In Gracious Love
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We as human beings want to see results and we usually want to see them now. Instead of waiting on God’s time, we always seem to think that we are ready today and can handle whatever comes our way. Sometimes not waiting on God, sets us upon a different course and getting to our destination with God may take a little longer, had we just had patience and waited on Him. Patience, now there’s a very complex word. Simple in meaning, yet very hard at times to accomplish. Sometimes having patience can be very difficult, especially when we want to see results and the results aren’t happening the way that we expect them to.
F. B. Meyer said it best: “God has set times. It is not for us to know them. Indeed, we cannot know them. We must wait for them. If God told Abraham in Haran that he must wait all those years until he pressed the promised child to his bosom, his heart would have failed him. So in gracious love, the length of the weary years was hidden. And only as they were nearly spent and there were only a few more months to wait, God told him, according to the time of life, “Sarah shall have a son.”
If God told you on the front end how long you would have to wait to find the fulfillment of your desire or pleasure or dream, you’d lose your heart. You’d grow weary in well doing. So would I. But He doesn’t. He just says, “Wait. I keep My word. I’m in no hurry. In the process of time I ‘m developing you to be ready for the promise.”