Before leaving our study on obstacles to answered prayer, let\u2019s be clear about one thing: some of our unanswered prayers have been answered. The answer is \u2018wait\u2019.<\/i> But because we don\u2019t like the answer, we keep hoping God will have a change of heart. The truth is God won\u2019t change His mind to accommodate us. So we have two options: <\/p>\n
(1) Keep complaining to Him.<\/i> <\/p>\n
(2) Start cooperating with Him.<\/i> <\/p>\n
When the prophet Habakkuk needed an answer to his prayers in order to give direction to Israel, what did God tell him? Wait!<\/b> \u2018Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it\u2026 Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.\u2019<\/i> (Habakkuk\u00a02:2\u20133\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n God works according to His own plan and schedule, and He won\u2019t be rushed. When you try to get ahead of Him you always end up in trouble. Abraham did that, and the end result was Ishmael. That\u2019s when Abraham\u2019s troubles began in earnest! Other times God answers our prayers and says, \u2018No.\u2019 He knows what you can handle and when you\u2019ll be ready to handle it, and He won\u2019t give it to you before then. <\/p>\n Paul said, \u2018Three times I pleaded with the Lord\u2026 But He said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a012:8\u20139\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) Instead of delivering Paul from his problem, God used it to develop him. Without his thorn in the flesh to counterbalance his great talent and potential pride, Paul wouldn\u2019t have been nearly so effective in the service of God. Think about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before leaving our study on obstacles to answered prayer, let\u2019s be clear about one thing: some of our unanswered prayers have been answered. The answer is \u2018wait\u2019. But because we don\u2019t like the answer, we keep hoping God will have a change of heart. The truth is God won\u2019t change His mind to accommodate us. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}