Perhaps you have asked God to guide you or respond to a prayer. It might be that you feel like God has not answered you leaving you in the lurch. There is a possibility that God has answered you, but you just don’t know it. You are not alone wondering where God’s response is and when it will occur. This happened to Daniel in his tenth chapter recording his experience. Finally, after a long time, an angel appeared to him saying that the answer he brought was hampered by Satan, but the answer was on its way.
An additional great example is that of Moses. He had a convoluted life. He was raised in royalty with Pharaoh’s family knowing that he was an Israelite. One day he went out to be with his own people. Impulsively, he murdered an Egyptian. The next day an Israelite verbally accosted him for the killing. This frightened him so badly that he left everything behind, eventually becoming a shepherd in a far country for the man who would become his father-in-law.
He had settled into that lifestyle until age 80 when once in the history of the world an occurrence was before him. It was a burning bush that was not consumed. God spoke to him out of the bush telling him that he was going to be the great deliverer for the Israelites from Pharaoh’s slavery.
Moses made a variety of excuses not to obey for the mission God planned for him. He was unaware that God would anticipate his hesitations. He soon learned that God had an answer for all his excuses as part of his call. In Exodus chapter 4, God asked what Moses had in his hand. He had been holding a rod that he used as a shepherd the whole time. That rod became an instrument of God’s miracles over the next forty years. There’s more to the story in chapter 4 but I simply want to point out that Moses had the rod already held in his hand.
You may be asking for God to answer your prayer and feel like he has not responded for perhaps a long time. The fact may be that God has already answered your prayer already providing the means of the answer by what you have in your possession. It might be something that you have taken for granted. Whatever it is, look again at your prayer. Look again for what you already have, that could be the answer that is in your hand. Too often we ask God to do something for us when he already gave the means to do it ourselves with his guidance and inspiration. Take inventory of what is in your life that God can use in your behalf or in behalf of other people. Put what you forgot in service to him.
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