Waiting and God's timing

[opera]

Have you ever prayed for something for years on end, something you wanted badly and that you felt was God’s Will and then finally received it? If so, did God’s timing, which of course is always right, make sense to you in the end?

I apologize if this question belongs in a different forum. I wasn’t sure where it belonged but am really seeking (name removed by moderator)ut (gently please) on these questions. Thank you.

 

[mh2007]

If you have received the answer to your prayer after so long waiting, I believe you are truly blessed, and most fortunate. Knowing prayers are answered like this must be very gratifying.

I do not pray for years on end. I ask, leaving it in God’s hands, and reckon His will is done regardless of the outcome. I have also discovered after many decades of living that things will be just fine with good health, and a peaceful, balanced life. Every day is magnificent with gratitude.

 

[Prairie_Rose]

If you have received the answer to your prayer after so long waiting, I believe you are truly blessed, and most fortunate. Knowing prayers are answered like this must be very gratifying.

I do not pray for years on end. I ask, leaving it in God’s hands, and reckon His will is done regardless of the outcome. I have also discovered after many decades of living that things will be just fine with good health, and a peaceful, balanced life. Every day is magnificent with gratitude.

What a beautiful attitude!!! I shall try to see life via this perspective!!! God Bless!!

PR

 

[klm120861]

Sometimes it’s only in retrospect that God’s timing makes any sense at all. And sometimes it doesn’t make any sense even then, at least not to me, but I understand that’s the limits of my tiny mind. Sometimes it takes years because we haven’t been at a place in our lives where we could receive the answer. We needed to grow some. Sometimes it takes years because we need to reach the point where we come to the end of ourselves and finally can allow him to do his thing his way, instead of trying to make it happen ourselves, all by ourselves. Whatever the reason, the timing is always perfect, though often it’s only by looking back at things we can see that.
Kris

 

[opera]

Sometimes it’s only in retrospect that God’s timing makes any sense at all. And sometimes it doesn’t make any sense even then, at least not to me, but I understand that’s the limits of my tiny mind. Sometimes it takes years because we haven’t been at a place in our lives where we could receive the answer. We needed to grow some. Sometimes it takes years because we need to reach the point where we come to the end of ourselves and finally can allow him to do his thing his way, instead of trying to make it happen ourselves, all by ourselves. Whatever the reason, the timing is always perfect, though often it’s only by looking back at things we can see that.
Kris

Thank you. This is very well said. A friend of mine expressed a similar idea just yesterday.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

I suppose the story of Joseph falls into this category. He was told when he was still a youth that his father and brothers would one day bow down and serve him. Trouble was he went and let them know about it in no uncertain terms.

It happened, but not the way he would have liked it to happen. He had to wait quite a long time, and that included being thrown into a well, sold into slavery, unjustly accused of rape, being thrown into prison, and even that included being forgotten for several more years even after he’d accurately translated the baker’s and wine taster’s dreams.

As a youth, Joseph probably planned on joining the Canaan Egyptian Cultural Society, becoming a powerful public speaker, developing networks with the rich and wealthy, being invited to all the best parties, getting an Egyptian education, taking an oath to the ultra secret Sphinx Society, joining the Pyramid Masons, and a nice steady rise up through Egyptian politics, until he occupied the highest office in the land bar the Pharaoh’s seat (and he probably had his eyes on that too).

But what actually happened was not quite what he expected. And yet God told him the truth - his father and brothers would one day bow down before him. God just left out the petty, unimportant details. God did not lie - He just didn’t tell the whole truth.

 

[Anne1964]

Yes, I prayed for God to help me choose the right house to buy earlier this year. My old house was on the market for over six months with a lot of showings but no offers.

I looked at a lot of houses but didn’t see anything I liked. Then one day I found THE house. I looked at it several times and the day I decided to make an offer on it, someone made an offer on my house. Some people will say that was just a coincidence. I tend to think otherwise.

I have a devotion to St. Teresa of Avila. On my third visit to look at the house I noticed a small neighborhood that said Welcome to Carmel Crossing.

 

[Glacies]

It is related that St. Monica prayed for 30 years for the conversion of her pagan husband and 17 years for the conversion of her son St. Augustine. In the end both converted, her husband one year before his death while in turn St. Augustine was baptized by Bishop St. Ambrose of Milan and became one of the great luminaries of the Church. Perseverance therefore, can work miracles.

 

[klm120861]

And yet God told him the truth - his father and brothers would one day bow down before him. God just left out the petty, unimportant details. God did not lie - He just didn’t tell the whole truth.

The thing is, God is a lot like the CIA. He works on a need-to-know basis. He only tells us what we need to know: “This is my will. Pray for it.” All the little details…Honestly, if we knew, we would probably run for the hills! I think his two favorite words in the entire English language are: “Trust me.”
Kris