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A two-year old who doesn’t get her way may throw a temper tantrum. A teenager may give you the silent treatment. What do you do when you don’t get your way?
The two-year-old’s temper tantrum is not going to change mom’s decision to not let her take the hot pan of cookies out of the oven. Mom knows her daughter’s tender skin will get burned and wants to protect her.
The teenager’s silent treatment is an ineffective strategy to soften dad’s reaction to her request for a new car.How do you react when God doesn’t answer your requests?
One of the most challenging aspects of prayer is trusting God’s answer.
We must depend on Him to answer our prayers in His way and in His timing.
When God responds to our prayers, He sometimes replies “yes,” “no,” or “wait.” However the way in which God always answers our petitions is with spiritual growth.
So, no matter what the answer, our best response is to give thanks:
Thanks for knowing what’s best.
Thanks for protecting me.
Thanks for providing for what I need, even if it isn’t what I want.
Thanks for increasing my faith.
Thanks for staying in control, even when I want to take control of things.
Thanks for being God!
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Guest Author, Brenda Brizendine
Psalm 37:4
4 Take delight in the LORD,
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
When I was growing up and starting taking an interest in boys, I started to imagine how my life would be as a married woman. A beautiful home, a loving husband and many children!
I had many goals to accomplish too! Complete and graduate from secondary school, go to college and graduate there too! Of course, I was also imagining in becoming a successful person in the professional world. But I never stopped thinking about the person I would get married to and would share my life with.
Time was passing... I was accomplishing my academic goals, and started my professional life. Ah! But I also started getting more involved in the service to the Lord in my congregation. I had to do well in all areas. But I couldn’t stop thinking, who will be the person that God has for me?
Without noticing it, I started paying more much attention to the idea of being married, and yes, I have to say it, I became a little obsessed. My friends started to have boyfriends, then getting married and having children and wonderful families. And I continued thinking, whom is God going to send for me? (My relatives also started to remind me that I was “lacking something”, because I wasn’t getting younger).
In my worry of fulfilling “my dream”, I started a couple sentimental relationships that left my heart in pieces. Was it their fault? Was it my fault because I let myself fall in love? But, what about “my” dream? God, why you are not fulfilling my desire?
One afternoon, during a Bible study meeting, the person teaching invited us to read 1 Corinthians 7, where it is mentioned that single women should get busy in the Lord’s matters. It was then when I understood that it was the time for me to pay attention to the Lord Jesus and not to any of the other “things” that I had in my agenda. That was the moment that I had to serve Him, all in!
Only then, when I started to focus my sight, my time and “my” agenda in the Lord’s matters, I learned to get to know Him better, to delight in Him and be more like the person that He wants me to be.
It was when I was all in and delighting in Him, that the man of my dreams came to my life. (I’ve been married for 5 years and have a beautiful daughter as a result of this marriage).
I don’t know what desire you have in your heart and is making you believe that God has forgotten to fulfill. I know that He is a Good God, and that His will is good, pleasing and perfect for each of us. (Romans 12:2)
My message here is not about seeking God just with the intention of fulfilling your desire or get something in exchange. My message is that as a result of seeking Him first and delighting in Him (Matthew 6:33); when you are all in, there will be overabundant blessings and, your dream, or the Lord’s dream will be fulfilled in you (Psalm 138:8).
Colossians 3:1-4 2Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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