Three Ways God Answers Prayer

We want God to answer our prayer our way, but there is a larger story going on, so we wait to see the way God answers prayer.

Most weekends, when my children were young, I made buns for lunch. First, I would make the bread dough in a breadmaker, then take the dough out, cut the dough into the number of buns needed and then stretch out the dough before twisting it into a bun.

Then I would let them rise before putting them into the oven.

Fresh hot buns for lunch. Yum.

The stretching and folding of the dough add strength to the bread. In addition, all those gluten networks are helped to develop.

Within my prayer life, I sometimes wonder if God is stretching and folding me. It is developing me into someone with deeper glutenous faith networks that give me strength and texture.

I keep praying, but my prayers seem to go unanswered because they don’t get answered in the way I want.

Is God listening? I keep praying, but nothing seems to change.

It’s so frustrating. You seriously wonder if God is there, does God care, and does prayer make a difference.

Surely if God loved me, then God would change the situation?

I have concluded that God does answer prayer, but maybe the answer is not what we expect.

Maybe God’s hands are tied, as such, because of the free will God has given humanity to choose whether to follow God or not. There is a stubbornness in all of us that flexes its muscles against God.

 

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