Prayers

When we pray only 2 things happen:

1. our prayers are answered immediately

2. our prayers are not answered (either not right now or never)

 

These are reactions that some Christians tend to do is:

1. when our prayers are answered immediately, they praise God, Praise Him as to how AMAZING He is
I can associate with this, because we feel blessed, God has given us what we wanted.

BUT have we also considered that there might be another reason why He would “grant" that prayer such as to give us a lesson…?

2. When are prayers are not answered (immediately or never) we give excuses for God
Like: it is not the right moment, He has something better planned, He wants us to be patient, etc.

sometimes I just want to say BS! Instead of giving God “excuses" shouldn’t we try to ask Him for an answer directly? If we are mad, shouldn’t we express these feelings as how David did in Psalms? I do not think that any anger not let out will help our faith and relationship with God, in fact, it will resurface sooner or later when something that hits our 汛