UNANSWERED

One of my biggest struggles is with unanswered prayer. Maybe you know the feeling. You ask God to help you do something hard, to mend a broken friendship, to help you do well in your studies. All these things are good, so they must be God’s will. Yet you hear nothing back from Him and
you see nothing change.

You remind God that He’s powerful and that your prayer request is a good thing. You plead. You wait. You doubt—maybe He doesn’t hear you, or maybe He isn’t so powerful after all. You quit asking—for days or months. You feel guilty about doubting. You remember that God wants you to take your needs to Him, and you tell Him your requests again.

We may sometimes feel like the widow in Jesus’ story in Luke 18. She kept coming to the judge, trying to wear him down so he’d give in to what she was asking for. But we know that God is kinder and more powerful than the judge in the story. We trust Him, for He is good and wise and in control. We remember that Jesus said we are to “always pray and not give up” (V.1).

So we ask Him, “Summon Your power, O God; show us Your strength, O God, as You have done before” (PSALM 68:28). And then we trust Him . . . and wait.

DELAY IS NOT THE END, SO KEEP PRAYING.

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