Why is God taking so Long?

Have you ever thought to yourself that, “God is taking too long and I know that I am ready to handle this particular thing in my life right now?” Have you ever said, this “promise” from God has to be a figment of my imagination because my miracle is taking way too long?

As the microwave generation, we want things NOW, when we want it and how we want it.

The thing is, the more “’prayed” up we are, the less humility we have to wait and trust God to see us through. We've fasted so much that we tend to get cocky and say “our miracle should be here by now,” we go to church every Sunday, so we deserve to have this blessing. Sometimes we don’t take the time for God to teach us His way because we so badly want everything to go our way.

However, God is not a magician (like my secondary school principal would always say), or a genie. God is not here to only make your dreams come true. He is here to build a relationship with us.

God needs you to Learn Endurance

James 1:1-4, 2 Timothy 2:3,4. 

To endure simply means "staying in a particular place for a long time regardless of the uncomforting situation". What does it mean to endure hardness? To endure suffering; stay in your place of suffering.The life of a Christian is both sweet and bitter. It is filled with roses and thorns. We have our part of suffering to go through- for gold to be good, it must go through intense fire. The part of suffering will bring out who we truly are. It is only in the place of suffering you will know your identity. You will not understand patience if you have not seen any reason to wait. You will know if Jesus is in your boat when you go through the storms of life. As a child of God if you have not gone through any moment suffering at all, then you really have not started. As a child of God your own suffering may be that instruction God is giving you.Your own hardness might be poverty, it might be God asking you to fast for 40days or God asking to tame your tongue. The reason why suffering might look like suffering for a believer is so that the flesh might be crucified. A time will come when your self will will be crushed to pieces. When a believer suffers, it is unto life but when an unbeliever suffers, it is unto to death. Have you ever consider that suffering is something that when you come out of it, will glorify God? Hence, what we need to seek is the grace of God to stay through the making process of our lives and be as hard as He intends us to be. *Prayer Point* ✓ Oh Lord, help me to go through this hardness, give me the grace to endure the hardness you bring my way. *God bless you!*

 

God wants you to Seek Him

Seeking God

Praying only is not ever after praying we have to seek his face and seeking based on my understanding requires patience and waiting. Seeking can be painful sometimes because it requires commitment, time and some work from the seeker. Let's take for instance a child seeking the attention of his/her mother, the child does not just sit and wait for the mother to come,the child has to do something even while waiting so as to really get the mother attention and whatever this child is doing requires work (crying, calling out, throwing tantrum and dragging the mothers clothes) same thing with when we are seeking the face of God. We don't just pray and then go our way saying we've prayed and God should be satisfied. The thing is after praying what are you doing to get God's attention or response? Are you calm enough to get a response from him? Because a child who really wants to get the attention of the mother doesn't just cry, the child complements these actions by also being expectant and by waiting. Seeking is a two way thing, like a two way communication between two people, the seeker has to wait for the response of the person whose attention he or she is seeking. In conclusion praying and seeking God is a two way communication, so whenever you pray , tarry to seek God face for a response, the response does not have to be dramatic, it can just be a verse of the bible popping up in your heart or maybe a word if wisdom from people around you or maybe a pat=rt of the bible standing out while you are studying your bible, just make sure you are attentive to the prompt of the spirit after praying. I pray the holy spirit grants us understanding.

 

 

 

We also have to remember that God’s word will not return to Him void and if he has promised it, you will receive it. It may be a year, 5 years or 10, but your delay will not be a denial. This is what God’s word aptly describes in Galatians 6:9 which says, "Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."

Conclusion

So I strongly encourage you to take solace in the fact that God’s timing is perfect. Don’t drown trying to control the situation. Humble yourself and allow God’s love to be all that you will ever need and allow that answered prayer to be just the icing for the joy you already have in Christ.

There is purpose in the wait. Trust the process, because it's leading you toward your purpose.

On the flip side, as believers, we must also learn that sometimes, Delay can be a denial. We need to discern through the spirit and know how to put the devil in his place while we love Jesus with the whole of our spirit soul and body.