You want so much to have the Lord answer that special prayer request. You have researched the Word of God and feel that your prayer request is biblical. Yet, as you pray and pray, God seems to either not be listening or that He has forgotten about you. Either way, the answer seems to elude you.
The problem may well be that you are in a hurry for God to answer your prayer, but He is in not so much of a hurry to give you that answer. Finding Phillips Brooks, the noted New England pastor, irritably pacing his study, a friend asked him, “What is the trouble?” “The trouble is,” answered Brooks, “that I am in a hurry – and God isn’t.” Ha! Ha! You chuckle because that is exactly where you are now, or where you have been. Your timing is not on the same timetable as God’s.
The Psalms hold true in affirming that principle. Psalm 119:81 says, “I wait for Your word.” The verse is discussing the waiting time for God to act in behalf of the psalmist. Just as the psalmist did not receive his answer when he thought he would receive it, neither do you. What do you do as you seek the Lord? You wait.
You are so accustomed to having everything right at your fingertips. You live in a society where the instant is the norm – instant food, instant answers to questions via the internet, instant conversations via cell phones, and on it goes.
You want answers and you want them now. But you must remember that God is the One who answers your requests, and He does it in His time. Ask God to let you be content in your situation and just wait upon God’s time. Remember, God is always right on time to answer that request right when it is needed most.
