God's Got You

We pray, we plead, bargain, get fed up, lose focus and then back on our knees praying some more. That is how my cycle of prayer goes sometimes, though I never openly admit it! By His grace however, God usually answers my prayers before I wear myself out. 

"There are a lot of things that haven't happened as of date but still to happen in the future, that will have a significant impact into your life. That's where God is waiting for you." Twitter @Agie246 

Some of the things we pray for, even though we pray for them to happen now, the circumstances to bring them about could be in the future.
Suppose some middle-aged guy kept asking God to give him comfort and healing over the death of his wife of fifteen years. They never had a child and every evening he comes to an empty apartment, eats his solitary dinner, prays the same prayer and restlessly goes to sleep.
Then a pandemic comes; daily updates on news become a horror movie. An elderly couple from his church gets hit and die within weeks of each other. God stirs his heart to go and offer comfort and support to the grieving young people who just lost their mum and dad. By giving comfort, this guy finally starts to experience his own healing too.

What we want today may be determined by the future that God is shaping out before us. The Bible Joseph must have prayed long and hard about his circumstances in prison. Every night before falling asleep and every morning when he got up, prayers for vindication were on his lips. But the dream that led Pharaoh to bring him out of prison and appoint him governor was still in the future.
So as Bible Esther and Ruth. Esther, though in the comfort of her cousin's home, might have grieved silently over her parents' early death wondering why she had to grow up as an orphan. The circumstances that led her to become one of the most powerful queens of her time were still in the future.
Ruth toiled all day long in a wealthy land-owner's field, harvesting left overs and possibly being ridiculed by the workers since she was a foreigner in Bethlehem. Every night she must have shed tears of exhaustion and grief over her husband. Lonesome for her own land and people became something she had to learn to handle in the recesses of her heart. No one could possibly understand her sorrow. 
But like He says in Jeremiah 29:11, God was working out a future for her. The landowner noticed her and married her. The servants that used to ridicule her  had to clean after her feet!

          For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to 

prosper you and not to harm, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11

God hears and answers all prayers. Trust Him even when you don't see Him working. Your life partner could still be planning and saving up for that trip where you will meet. Your comfort may come through caring for a stranger in a foreign land. Your new job's circumstances are being sorted as people get promoted and demoted. God's got you!💞💞💞

Check out the book Touch The Mountain by TS Pelina
https://www.amazon.com/author/tspelina