Is what your hoping for in Gods will?

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I dont know if this is appropriate to post on the forums but here it goes…say your really hoping for something to happen in the near future, it’s certainly not a impossibility but you would definitely need God’s help with it ( it’s not like you wanting to win the lotto or anything like that)…days and months go by and you just give up on what your hoping for BUT whenever you give up on what you desire to happen and go on with your life, the thought keeps popping up in your mind every time you stop thinking about it … i dont know but could this be a potential sign from god to keep on hoping b/c what i desire is possibly in HIS WILL or could this just be my human desire?..sorry i dont know if i should have met with a priest or a spiritual counsellor with this matter, but i thought i could get your opinions?..
 
Keep praying. There are people we pray for continually but the time for God to act on those prayers is not on our time table but on His. You know, and thinking about this and about the redemption, it took many generations before Jesus came to fulfill a promise. Everyone asked even Jacob’s children when the redemption would come. Although the prophets had forth knowledge of that day (as to see it) but not knowledge of the actual time.

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."Habakkuk 2:3

When Joseph went down into Egypt did anyone expect that the Israelites would become so numerous? Then the power of God acted after how many years to release them. The power of the redemption brought the Israelites out of bondage. Bondage is a strong word and gripping but like so many things within Abraham’s lineage Sarah became pregnant with child even as Abraham waited for that hope. And the Apostle Paul wrote about this in Hebrews 11, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

Put faith into your prayers and wait. Let God speak to you inside and you will find peace inside. I’ve come to know that you can not press God to act on it - this is something that has its own time to develop. I have shed many tears to know and many time I had to go to mass or sit in church and cry it out. But, God has sent me that peace and believe me endurance to make me move everyday and pray. God sends encouragement in what I read and understand about belief, faith and prayers. I just don’t know how he puts up with me sometimes. This God has patience.

Keep praying and He will strengthen you for when it’s time to act. God timing is perfect. Look toward our Lord and the perfect way He speaks about the father.
 
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I believe God answers prayers in a way that helps us find eternal life. Maybe pray for the guidance, wisdom the strength and the peace to do God’s will.
 
“Not my will, but yours be done, Lord.” over and over and over and over
 
I’d recommend detaching yourself from things that are not necessary if they are not obtainable at the moment.
 
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Yes, I agree but we have to have trust that God has our best interest at heart. Trust, belief and faith…all the components to help move prayers.

On Abraham, it was said that God spoke to Abraham and told him to look up to the stars (as to know) that he would have many descendants as vast and numerous as the stars. Abraham was about to give his inheritance to his servant. We never know what God has planned. Our prophets in the old Testament give us such a demonstration of how we ourselves have uncertainties. Trust, belief and faith…Genesis 26:4 (NIRV) I will make your children after you as many as the stars in the sky.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:17 to “pray without ceasing” or to “pray continually”

Start small, and build into a larger habit of daily prayer.

The beautiful thing is, the more we pray, we are often filled with joy from communion with our Father. This leads us to desire more prayer.
 
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say your really hoping for something to happen in the near future, it’s certainly not a impossibility but you would definitely need God’s help with it (
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Pray unceasingly…don’t stop and gain insight from God. Ask , and it shall be given you; seek , and ye. shall find; knock , and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh. findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
 
From my own personal experiences, life is one big test.

God will test every single one of us. Some more than others.

Is it right for a loving Dad to grant a child’s wish each time they ask ?
Doesn’t a loving Dad already know what’s best for their own child ?

Whatever you wish for I hope you don’t give up asking for… Because when you least expect it… He may change his mind.
 
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From my own personal experiences, life is one big test.
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You see it as a test? It’s not a pass or fail it. You can not retake the test. When you fail a test then you understand the need for God. God is in every part of our lives when we let him in to guide us. There are three specific conditions that the Lord is laying out – asking, seeking, and knocking. When we are faced with something difficult don’t we ask God to educate our minds? And when those situations arise when we have to turn to God for guidance end up for the good, doesn’t our relationship become stronger? God is a educator…Moses continually asked God for help during the journey. See Joseph’s remark toward his brothers in Genesis, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” Same applies to the cross, our Lord saved many lives…

Marah - bitterness - a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain “a certain tree” which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it.
 
Jesus, our redeemer, asked this question to the expert in the law, ( I picture this as the decision of a posek (“ruling of law”; pl. piskei din , piskei halakha ) or simply a “psak” in Hebrew.

Perhaps to know or to test? The question? But in away, the son of God knowing the full embodiment of the law would ask the “expert” how do you read it or how do you understand it? Pass or Fail? Eternal life and how we understand the path to receive it? It is not pass or fail, it is what God sees in us and judges us, correct?

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One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”

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He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’c and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’d ”

The response back:

You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

…it is the end remark that will get you saved

The one who showed him mercy,” replied the expert in the law.

Then Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
 
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There was no offence taken “but” endurance and perseverance in how we continually go to God in our prayers for an answer or for prayers for assistance is apart of it. Again, we are not being tested. Trust to know that our prayer will be answered or granted, the belief that we are being heard and that God not only hears but acts on them and, the motivator, is faith.

That is the part of the Shema - “Love of God”, when you love God with all your strengths mind, body and soul you are united with his will. The word Ha’azinu (האזינו) literally means “give ear,” an expression meaning "Listen to this…God wants us to communicate in prayer but also to listen to what we need to do…
 
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