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Post by SunnyGirl on Sept 8, 2010 14:54:09 GMT -5
Are all prayers answered?
In a word, I would say yes!
Now it doesn't always mean God gives me everything
I ask for. Thank goodness, He know better than I do!
I always think about the Garth Brooks song, "Thank God
for unanswered prayers"..... I have prayed for things I
thought I really needed and in His ultimate wisdom He
said no and as life continued on, I saw the wisdom in
his refusal. As the Bible says, "You do not have, because
you do not ask God. And when you do ask, you don't receive
because you ask wrongly, with wrong motives, for selfish
reasons.(James 4:3)
I've come to the conclusion that in many of my prayers
I've been looking for a quick fix. Prayer isn't like a giant
aspirin, take God three times a day and you won't feel any
pain. Sometimes, I just need to look a little deeper and
pray for the strength to bear the pain until He leads me
to someone who can fix the problem causing the pain.
Thy will, not my will..... I know how I want a prayer to
be answered, but His will is always the best for me in
the long term. Yes... No.... or Later but he always
answers my prayers!
Peace on the journey, SG
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Post by BW on Sept 8, 2010 15:41:50 GMT -5
Oh...Yes..They are answered...I've had to be reminded that His time is not my time...and I've also had to be reminded that the answer might be "NO" or "Not yet"...but the answer is there...and that His timing is always perfect and He has a perfect view of the larger picture...I do not......
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Post by SunnyGirl on Sept 8, 2010 17:49:06 GMT -5
well said my friend! Hugs, SG
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Post by caressa on Sept 12, 2010 5:25:37 GMT -5
As I have said many times before, God says, "Yes, No, and you got to be kidding."
God is always there, it is me that goes away. If I don't hear the answer, it is because I don't want to and am turning a deaf ear.
I will never forget the day that I asked for help, I was given a message, "Give thanks it is already on it's way" and as I got up from my rug saying thank you, thank you, thank you, before I had stood up all the way, the phone was ringing giving me the answer to my need.
There have been a couple of times in particular where I was in a situation and didn't know how to handle it, I was full of fear and with no knowing as to what to do. I prayed and I felt the touch of God from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. I was in total chaos and shaking, and there was instant peace. I was able to handle the situation and know what to do.
Another time, I was doing a meditation, asked for healing, stretched back on my lazy boy and I again felt the hand of God, and when I got up, I had gotten what I called my zig to go with my zag. It was like I had been frozen from the waist down (probably because of the rapes), and I had freedom of movement. I lost the fear of putting the wrong foot forward, of saying and doing the wrong thing, but most of all, I found that God does answer prayer.
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Post by SunnyGirl on Sept 12, 2010 16:33:38 GMT -5
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding; in all ways acknowledge Him, and he
will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
There are times when I don't understand why God says No....
A friend of ours, a dear sweet woman, had her husband
ask her for a divorce. (In Vegas you can have one in less
than a week if you're a resident) Within a few weeks, her
youngest son was stricken with a rare form of cancer. He
underwent chemo therapy for over a year and passed
away at home, in a hospital bed, with his friends and family
there by his side. She spent part of every single day there
by her sons grave, wondering why God would take him so
young....
Two years later, her older son was driving home from a small
town called Pahrump, he had been drinking and was going too
fast for the two lane road.... the car rolled, he was killed instantly!
She had only her faith to get her through this tragic time!
In 5 short years, she lost her husband to divorce and her
only two children to death.... I told her once, "I don't know
how you do it, getting up and facing each day?" She told
me God gives her the strength, but "I wish he didn't trust
so much"....
One year later Dar was diagnosed with lung cancer and she
faded away slowly for 6 months. I will remember her smile!
When ever I'd see her she always had a big smile on her face
(even if it didn't quite reach her eyes)
They say that God never gives us more than we can handle.....
And Darlene faced each day bravely, but in the end, I think
God knew she was tired and he brought her home to reunite
with her boys....
God doesn't make bad things happen to us, we are not
puppets that he controls from heaven. Life happens, good
and bad! He is always there to help us if we stumble
and call out his name! Dar knew this and her faith kept her
strong, she touched so many lives and made me want to
thank my God for the blessings I've been given....
Hugs, SunnyGirl
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Post by caressa on Sept 13, 2010 5:03:35 GMT -5
From what I have heard and have come to believe, God gives us choices. I don't think God chose to do her harm. Her husband and her children made choices. I firmly believe that cancer is caused by unexpress feelings and thoughts, mostly of a negative variety and they are just cankers that carrode the soul.
We often pray that someone get well or is relieved of their pain, yet how God chooses to answer our prayer often makes me careful of how I ask. I try to ask for their Higher Good and that they be given what they need, not what I think they require.
I am glad her faith was so strong and that she hung onto God's hand through it all. It certainly is a heavy burden to carry.
My aunt prayed to be taken home when she lost her eye sight. God didn't answer her prayer for two years. She was a healthy lady, her body was in fine physical shape. She had few wrinkles and didn't look her age, which was 83 when she passed away. She had dementia at the end. She was a lady who did for everyone else all her life, including me. I missed her very much. It was important for me not to keep her spirit here because of my grief. Many times I would go to pick up the phone to call her. I had to let her go.
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Post by caressa on Sept 15, 2010 15:11:08 GMT -5
For the past week, I have been praying and asking for help with my pain. I have always asked for help each day, but this was a more of an emotional and spiritual help, going beyond the physical problem.
God put three awesome people in my path. Another lady, who I met on Monday and again today who I hadn't seen for a long time, and all of a sudden she started appearing in my life in the last few months.
When we ask, but more importantly, when we are willing, the teacher appears. I have so much anger, combined with guilt, resentment, pissed off, fear, did I mention anger, and not only from today, but anger from my past at 18. I have very little memory before the age of 14. A lot of it is body memory and needs to be healed. How can you heal what you don't remember. With God's help, there is no other way or solution.
A lot of it is also trust issues. For some reason, I expect people in recovery to be honest and I realized that I put to many expectations on them. Their not willing to look at their issues is their problem not mine. So I could see my control issues showing and I know that when I am in control, I am in my dis-ease, not in recovery. If I have to control it, it is already out of control. For me, it is better left to my God. I prefer to just go with the flow. Let things be. I don't have to make it happen. I can't make something out of nothing. Yet I felt like nothing, and God made something out of me.
He is the answer to my prayer!
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Post by Lin on Sept 16, 2010 12:58:51 GMT -5
I agree that the answer is YES. The other part of the answer is the answers are not always what I want to hear. My HP answers with yes, no and not yet. Those with NOT YET are the ones that make me squirm. Could it be I need to pray for help with PATIENCE???
LIN
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Post by majestyjo on Apr 16, 2017 13:09:01 GMT -5
God does answer my prayers. My son is still alive. .jpg) |
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Post by majestyjo on Mar 28, 2021 23:18:07 GMT -5
Gox is still on His throne. My soon is still aive.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.