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I have been waiting 40 years for God to fulfill a promise He made to me that I had not asked for or prayed for. What’s the hold up? At this point I can’t go further career-wise unless He fulfills the promise that He made to me. I have done all that I can do.
 
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You may wish to move this to a thread where people can give advice. In the Prayer forum, I pray that you find some spiritual direction.
 
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I have been waiting 40 years for God to fulfill a promise He made to me that I had not asked for or prayed for. What’s the hold up? At this point I can’t go further career-wise unless He fulfills the promise that He made to me. I have done all that I can do.
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God promises us salvation , eternal salvation , if we live by His rules and fulfil all the requirements. God does not promise us careers.

How do you think God made you a promise about your career , what happened that you thought this?
 
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God is always in control, so be humble and accept what you are given. Many others have less.
 
Whoa whoa whoa, you are putting conditions on God? He doesn’t have to answer to you, he made you, quite literally.
 
How is it that you think God made a promise to you 40 years ago? How did he let you know about it?
 
Just curious, how did God make you a promise you neither asked nor prayed for? Was it a private revelation? If so how did he appear to you?

I would sincerely like to understand.

Peace and God Bless
Nicene
 
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At this point I can’t go further career-wise unless He fulfills the promise that He made to me.
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I don’t know how God made you a promise that he ‘has’ to fulfill. God does not make it so that you cannot live unless he fulfills a personal promise.

You cannot bargain with God and only obey him if he does something for you. That’s a little like prosperity gospel Protestantism.

If it is God’s will, then your prayer will be granted at the right time. If it isn’t fulfilled, you’ll know it wasn’t his will.

IC XC NIKA
 
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God promised Abraham that he would have as many descendants as the stars in the sky, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. Many years passed, Abraham got old and his wife Sarah was well past menopause, and they had zero children. Then God gave them Isaac, a child of promise and laughter.

God is not known for showing up promptly.
 
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God promised Abraham that he would have as many descendants as the stars in the sky, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. Many years passed, Abraham got old and his wife Sarah was well past menopause, and they had zero children. Then God gave them Isaac, a child of promise and laughter.

God is not known for showing up promptly.
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God promised the world a saviour since the days of Adam - how many thousands (tens of thousands) of years did we have to wait for that particular promise to be fulfilled?

Jesus promised He would come again - we’ve been waiting almost 2,000 years on that one.

If you’ve done all you can do, you’ve done all you can do. I think God expects us to do what we can with what we have and where we are at any given point in time.
 
Only you and the Lord know what it is, some people wait their entire lives while some wait just a bit. God has a plan for every one of us, pray about it, obviously if you havent prayed about it NOW would be a great time to ask God to prepare you and SHOW you what to do. Good to remember, needs over wants 🙂

It kind of reminds me of that one story of the shipwrecked man in the middle of the ocean and asks God to save him. Then he rejects the cruiseship, fisherman boat, etc. Dies and eventually asks the Lord why he didnt save him.
 
I would advise you to take what you feel is a promise made by God to you to a good spiritual director, or to your priest. We have to be careful when we feel we have a private revelation, one is because of the reasons you describe. We put our hope in this revelation and then struggle when it does not manifest in the manner we expect.

Fr Groeschel’s book about private revelations is a good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Small-...schel+still+small+voice&qid=1574170983&sr=8-1
 
To further clarify, the promise was confirmed by 2 other sources.
 
different_division said:
I have been waiting 40 years for God to fulfill a promise He made to me that I had not asked for or prayed for. What’s the hold up? At this point I can’t go further career-wise unless He fulfills the promise that He made to me. I have done all that I can do.
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I see the mistake I made here. I should have said that I can’t go further unless I change which is much more difficult to do.
 
Ók, what do you expect from this forum? We have no idea what the promise was, or how it is affecting you. We can only be skeptical the God spoke so plainly to three people, as that sort of thing is quite rare.

Visit a good priest and talk to him about it.
 
May God bless you with wisdom, discernment or whatever graces are needed to accept the actual reality of your life that you have worked hard to achieve in this often disappointing world. All of us, one way or other, have to face our lives with humility and gratitude, despite many disappointments.

Jesus’ own life carried disappointments He most certainly didn’t deserve. That hurt Him, also.
Remember how He wept over Jerusalem for the rejection of the love and truth He offers.

In honesty, the fact that two others confirmed what you want, is less convincing to others, because there are many reasons that can lead people to confirm what we hope to hear. And their natures might compel them to for all kinds of reasons.
It seems unlikely that God would make a specific promise about someone’s personal advancement.
 
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May God bless you with wisdom, discernment or whatever graces are needed to accept the actual reality of your life that you have worked hard to achieve in this often disappointing world. All of us, one way or other, have to face our lives with humility and gratitude, despite many disappointments.

Jesus’ own life carried disappointments He most certainly didn’t deserve. That hurt Him, also.
Remember how He wept over Jerusalem for the rejection of the love and truth He offers.

In honesty, the fact that two others confirmed what you want, is less convincing to others, because there are many reasons that can lead people to confirm what we hope to hear. And their natures might compel them to for all kinds of reasons.
It seems unlikely that God would make a specific promise about someone’s personal advancement.
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The skepticism is unwarranted. At the times of the promise and confirmations I had no need or desire for the promise to be fulfilled. Why would I make it up? So I could complain about it not being fulfilled years later?
 
There was no intention of suggesting that you personally made anything up, aside from the awareness that in good faith, people can easily believe what they want to believe as not a matter of consciously makings things up.
It is also true many things can be in operation as to why others might agree with and support what we believe or want to believe, or simply that we hope for. It doesn’t need to be conscious deception, but a matter of personality or or attachment or whatever.
Basically you are fearing it might appear, that God is failing you? That is the impression that could be received, However it seems more likely that good will and hope on your part and others for you may have convinced that God made a.promise that He appears He may have failed to complete , although while you live there is still time for you to achieve any goals …it also could be that any of them might have seen it as necessary encouragement

God promises what He promises in Scripture. That He might promise what transpires in advancement in our careers?
Certainly we and our associates might honestly want to believe so. The human mind and heart, very complex and not necessarily trustworthy.
I prayed for you in good faith. I dont doubt your sincerity itself, and even that of your friends or contacts, just the reality, and no one here can affirm or deny your belief about a promise for career and life direction you believe God made you, because no one but God can know all that is consciously or unconsciously in operation in others words or beliefs.

We can only either remind that God’s time isn’t our time, as Abraham found, but also that in the complex human mind and psychology, and personality we can’t always be certain that our private beliefs or those of others are based in fact or hope, or even, as each of us have isolated mental frameworks, that we ever really understand each other or where the motivation or the thought and feelings of others spring from.
Basically just because others support us doesn’t mean that we all are correct, for complex reasons, not intentional deception.
Thus telling us that others agreed that you were promised, doesn’t give us the conviction that it’s a true personal promise of career advancement that God made anyone…
Again I can only pray that God will continue to bless you and guide you in all things temporal and spiritual
And to apologise for the length of my post, written in an awake period of my night, but not edited as I should get back to sleep
 
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How did God make this promise to you and how did He make it known to the two people who have confirmed it?
Such clarity in private revelation is quite rare, indeed it is very rare even among the great mystics. Unless you provide details, the skepticism is very warranted. And without further information, no one can even speculate as to an answer to your original question.
 
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