When the Answer is Delayed Part 3
April 15, 2015
God gave Abraham promises that would not come to pass for hundreds of years. Abraham died before any were fulfilled. Next time you feel like God is a bit slow in answering your prayers, remember: His scale of time is bigger than yours. He has a larger agenda.
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Abraham never saw the fulfillment of God’s promises to him. In that light, who are we to complain when our prayers are not answered right away? Today, we’ll gain a larger perspective on prayer, which many of us perhaps never had.
April 14, 2015
When we pray for something, we hope for a quick response from God. But God has His own clock, which is not always in sync with ours. How do we handle prayers that, to us, are time critical, when the answers seem to be anything but?
April 13, 2015
Someone has said, “Pressure produces.” It’s when we’re suffering that God refines our character, and that’s more important than Him answering our prayers when we think He should. Unanswered prayers and suffering form in us the quality of endurance.
April 10, 2015
When the answers to our prayers don’t come on our schedule, many of us lose heart.But the Bible says that trials and suffering produce endurance, a quality with which God is very pleased. Here are more lessons on what to do “When the Promises Don’t Work.”
April 9, 2015
It happens again and again: a child dies even after we pray. Where was God? Many react by giving up prayer, questioning God’s promises, intentions, and character. Do your prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling too?
April 8, 2015
Paul said that Jesus was “declared to be the Son of God with power....by the resurrection from the dead.” If we trust Christ for salvation, that empty tomb in Jerusalem is a promise that our tombs will one day be empty as well.
April 7, 2015
Death is everyone’s unavoidable fate, due to the legacy of the sins committed by Adam and Eve. But believers cling to the promise of Jesus, “I am the resurrection and the life…he that believes in Me, though he may die, yet shall he live.”
April 6, 2015
Jesus faced untold agony in a place called Gethsemane. Knowing what awaited Him, and praying until blood drops hit the ground, He finally said to His Father, “Not my will, but Thine be done.” The great transaction would now take place.
April 3, 2015
Gethsemane lies on the Mount of Olives facing the Old City of Jerusalem. Here, Jesus spent a night in agonized prayer before being nailed to a cross outside the city wall. His task: to drink the cup of suffering for you and for me. What does this mean?
April 2, 2015
The legacy we inherit from our Master includes suffering. To walk with Jesus means that we must walk with Him in Gethsemane. Here a decision was reached that made salvation possible for billions of believers yet to be born.
April 1, 2015
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