Praying as God desires!

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There are times when God delays in answering our prayers and it is part of the perfect answer.

18 Jesus also told them a parable about the need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2 He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man. 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' 4 But he refused for a while. But afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I neither fear God nor regard man,' 5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her justice, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming." 6 Then the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 Will not God then give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay in answering them? 8 I tell you, he will give them justice quickly.' But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

Luke 18:1-8

We all like things to be simple, easy and above all immediate, we want everything to be to obtain what we want with a few simple steps. But while this is applicable to some things in life, it is not applicable to prayer, this formula is NOT applicable to prayer.

Let us start from the fact that prayer is the way we communicate daily with God and communication does not consist of only asking and receiving, communication is asking, giving, waiting, listening, speaking and acting, this is how God teaches us.

Let us remember that in his word he has promised to answer us, perhaps some answers are NOT immediate, sometimes the answer is delayed and this can be for many reasons.

3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

James 4:3

Sometimes God delays his response simply because we need a type of preparation, then he gives us that time to prepare ourselves to obtain what he will give us. Frequently we have attitudes or some behaviors that are not aligned with his desire for his will.

In other situations it may be that God makes us wait to test our faith and in some way deepen our relationship with him. We must also remember that God's calendar sometimes does not coincide with ours, for us OR our desire is immediate, but God knows what he will achieve through us at the exact moment.

Those delays that God includes in the life of his children are part of the life that led to our development and our growth, likewise we must continue persevering, insistent and above all with the hope that God will give us the answer that suits us.

God urges us to ask, to seek, to knock, to follow the way of life that pleases God, that is, to live a life confident that He will work on our behalf and respond to our requests.