But when it pleased God

• GALATIANS 1:15

It takes God time to answer prayer. We often fail to give God a chance in that respect. It takes time for God to paint a rose. It takes time for God to grow an oak. It takes time for God to make bread from wheat fields. He takes the earth. He pulverizes. He softens. He enriches. He wets with showers and dews. He warms with life. He gives the blade, the stock, the amber grain, and then at last the bread for the hungry.

All this takes time. Therefore we sow, and till, and wait, and trust, until all God’s purpose has been wrought out. We give God a chance in this matter of time. We need to learn this same lesson in our prayer life. It takes God time to answer prayer.

Pray About It:

It’s our nature to want things to happen quickly. With God, a day is as a thousand years. He takes His time in creating oaks, and in answering the acorns of prayers that we pray.

Don’t rush God. Today, by faith, tell God that you will lay down your timetable in favor of His. Then wait expectantly, as long as it takes.

“The prayer that begins with trustfulness and passes on to waiting will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.”

• ALEXANDER MACLAREN

• From the book Extraordinary Prayer by Nick Harrison.