What Do You Do When God Doesn't...
Have you ever felt like God wasn’t listening? Maybe your fervent prayer wasn’t being answered the way you hoped. Maybe you feel you prayers are going no higher than the ceiling. Maybe you feel you aren’t worthy of a miracle or that you have made too many mistakes for God to listen to you anymore.
If you have ever felt this way, please realize this important truth: God loves you and always hears your prayer. Now, that doesn’t mean He is going to answer it exactly the way you think He should (even if it is for something good).
Resources When God Doesn’t Seem to Answer
A few weeks ago I head this question asked, “Do you have the faith NOT to be healed.” It really made me ponder, and realize that I had to learn a few things about that VERY question several years ago. I share my experience here: Faith Not to Be Healed? You can watch it on YouTube here.
Jen had a really bad case of COVID, and when she was hospitalized she felt like she was so fuzzy in her brain that she couldn’t communicate with God very well—or understand what He was prompting her to do. Listen to her share her story of the solution she came up with and some good stress relievers she learned along the way here: Jen Geigle Johnson: What to do When God is Silent. You can watch it on YouTube here.
Maybe you feel you are in Limbo and you can’t seem to get traction to move you forward. Check out this podcast episode: In Limbo Waiting for Answers to Prayer? Try These 4 Tips.
Whatever you do, don’t give up. Don’t give in to the adversary. He is the one whispering lies into your ears when you are feeling down—when you feel like there is no answer forthcoming.
Someone once said, “When we pray, God hears more than we say, answers more than we ask, gives more than we imagine, but in His own time and in His own way. So keep faith.”
So perhaps patience is the key. Patience and remembering the answers we have received in the past—which will give us hope for future answers. Just keep the faith!
Hope on!
Tamara