Waiting for Answers

Unanswered prayers are hard.  Praying with all my strength.  Seeking.  Searching.  Waiting.  Watching.  Listening.  Believing.  Yet seeing nothing.

I feel like a child looking out the window anxiously awaiting a promised visitor to come play.  Time stands still at that window.  It seems like the promised one will never arrive.  

Do you, like me, have unanswered prayers in your life?  Mountains too big to scale.  Too high to climb.  Too wide to go around to the other side.  Too solid to dig through.   And certainly too strong to be moved.  And, like me, do you often notice that while you expectantly wait for God to scale them, move them, or dig through them, all you see is more snow falling upon them making them stand even taller and wider?

These mountains call to me to give up.  What is the use?  Why keep persevering?  Other things of life beg for my attention.  I’m distracted.  The more I pray, the bigger the mountain appears.  Why press on?  Why press in harder now?

Yet, if I shift my eyes from the mountain, to the promises of God, I view it differently.  Because of the promises of God, I can endure...  I must persevere...  I must not give up.  

We must not surrender to what our eyes see, but instead, to our Mountain Mover, Jesus.

Jeremiah 29:11-13, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord...”  (NIV).    

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My Child,
When you draw near to Me, I draw near to you.  When you seek Me, I will always let you find Me.  I hear every prayer.  Every prayer of My children is in golden bowls in heaven.  And, just like Daniel, when My children pray, there is movement in the heavens.  You cannot see it with your eyes.  But, you can know it in your heart.  

I will answer every prayer.  But, sometimes you must wait.  If you will wait, you will soar, Child.  You will always soar.  For, who is like Me?  I have created all things.  I am everlasting.  I do not grow weary or tired.  My strength and power will be poured out at the perfect time.  Lift up your countenance and see I am yours  (James 4:8, Matthew 7:7-8, Revelation 5:8, Daniel 10:2-14, Isaiah 40:25-31).

Your Answerer