{"id":620,"date":"2021-03-30T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.designswebs.com\/rocksal\/?p=620"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:10:35","slug":"what-to-do-while-waiting-for-god-to-answer-your-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.designswebs.com\/rocksal\/what-to-do-while-waiting-for-god-to-answer-your-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do While Waiting For God To Answer Your Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Applying Faith In Your Prayers<\/strong><br>From our last discussions, we learned four key steps required to effectively apply our&nbsp;faith during prayers. These are:<br>1. We come to God in prayers believing that He is real and true, and the only All Mighty&nbsp;God, who unfailingly rewards anyone who diligently seek Him.<br>2. While in the prayer, we worship Him in the Holy Spirit, using a combination of word based&nbsp;praise, and thanksgiving , which should further boost our faith in Him.<br>3. We make our requests to Him faithfully, speaking our requests in such a way that our&nbsp;words reflect our full believe and full persuasion that He will answer us.<br>4. We become convinced that we are receiving what we requested.<br>Because God told us to believe that we are receiving what we asked for while still&nbsp;praying, then we have the assurance that He has already answered yes to our requests,&nbsp;and in due time, the answer will manifest to us.<br><br><strong>What To Do After Prayers<\/strong><br>In this issue, we consider what to do after the prayer: How to align our thinking, talking&nbsp;and actions to insure that His answers will manifest to us.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;When God fulfills His answers to our prayers right away just like in the vast majority of&nbsp;the miracles that Jesus performed, then we don&#8217;t have to worry about what to do after the&nbsp;prayer: We simply receive the miracle with joy and thanksgiving.&nbsp;But when He does not do so, then there is a waiting period during which we must conduct&nbsp;ourselves in certain ways to ensure that God&#8217;s answers will manifest sooner rather than&nbsp;later. These ways of conduct are:<br><br><strong>I. Remain Fully Persuaded That God Has Answered Our Prayers:<\/strong><br>That is, we must not allow the great faith and the resulting persuasion that we reached in&nbsp;prayers to wane. Doing so invites premature disappointment leading to doubts and fear,&nbsp;which eventually kill our faith and thereby delay the fulfillment of God&#8217;s answers to our&nbsp;prayers. God will never withdraw His yes answer, but faithlessness on our part can delay&nbsp;the fulfillment of that answer.<br><br><strong>2. Align Yourself With God:<\/strong><br>That is, during the waiting period you must:<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Think like God<\/li><li>Talk like God and<\/li><li>Act like God.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Think, Talk And Act Like God:<br>Let me use the story of Abraham to help us grasp how God does His things. God called&nbsp;Abraham and promised that through a descendant of his, He will redeem all the nations of&nbsp;the world. For this reason, God one day said to Abraham: &#8220;I have made you a father of&nbsp;many nations.&#8221; (This being spoken) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even&nbsp;God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though&nbsp;they did (Rom. 4:17-24).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But Abraham and his wife (Sarah), being more than 75 and 65 years old, respectively,&nbsp;were advanced in age; way past child-bearing age. In human frame of thinking, how were&nbsp;they going to fulfill such a promise; being too old to start a lineage that would lead to a&nbsp;descendant who would fulfill God&#8217;s promise? But because God promised it, it had to be&nbsp;true, and they will surely have a child. But the child, Issac, did not come right away: it&nbsp;took 25 years; a very long time for a couple that was already too old to have a child&nbsp;naturally.&nbsp;So what was Abraham to do during these long years? He had to align Himself with the&nbsp;frame of God&#8217;s mind; thinking, talking and walking the way God does. In the Romans&nbsp;4:17-24 scripture above, a universal statement about an attribute of God is made; God&nbsp;naturally&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;calls those things which do not exist as though they did.&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;In other words,&nbsp;God&#8217;s frame of mind is such that He calls things that do not exist in our world, as though&nbsp;they do. He said to Abraham&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;I have made you a father of many nations&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;even though&nbsp;it would take about 2000 years for the promise to be fulfilled.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In God&#8217;s world, Abraham was already a father of many nations in about 2000 BC, even&nbsp;though that did not start to happen in our world till about 33 AD. For when the scripture&nbsp;say; &#8220;&#8230;things that do not exist,&#8221; it means things that have not yet happened or manifested&nbsp;in our physical world. Nevertheless, these things exist in God&#8217;s world as soon as God&nbsp;speaks the answer to our prayers.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;God is Spirit and lives in the realm of the Spirit. When He declares a thing or person to&nbsp;exist, that thing or person comes into being in His world; the Spirit realm. But in our&nbsp;physical world, the thing or person does not yet exist. Even so, we must by faith chose to&nbsp;disregard what our physical senses tell us; that it does not exist, and rather, believe and&nbsp;agree with God that it exists.<br><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;For we who are the new creation, redeemed and called children of God, and having&nbsp;the image and nature of God, have been endued with power to think, talk and act&nbsp;like God; thinking about, talking about and acting on those things that we pray for,<br>as though they exist. For by this, we speak in total agreement with God, who has the&nbsp;power to fulfill our request in the physical world.<\/strong><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;When we agree with God, He applies His power to fulfill His answers to our prayers, but&nbsp;when we disagree with God through unbelief, fear and doubt, we delay God from doing&nbsp;fulfilling His answers to our prayers.<br>Abraham Thought, Talked And Acted Like God:<br>By stitching together excerpts from verses 18-21 of Romans 4, we can say the following&nbsp;about Abraham&#8217;s thinking, talking and actions: He,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Contrary to hope, in hope (he)&nbsp;believed &#8230; what was spoken &#8230;&#8230; With great faith, he did not consider his own body,&nbsp;already dead (at 100 years old), and the of Sarah&#8217;s died womb (at 90 years old).&nbsp;He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in&nbsp;faith&#8221; so that he became fully persuaded that what God had promised He was also<br>able to perform&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong>(Rom. 4:18-24).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In other words, Abraham refused to believe the indication that he and Sarah were too old&nbsp;to have children for the upward fulfillment of God&#8217;s promise. Rather, he exercised great&nbsp;faith to believe God&#8217;s words; thinking, talking and acting like God until Sarah conceived&nbsp;and bore a son through whose descendant, Jesus Christ, that God later fulfilled his&nbsp;promise of making Abraham the Father of many nations. If we always emulate Abraham,&nbsp;none of our prayers will go unanswered.<br><br><strong>3. Always Expect God&#8217;s Answer To Manifest:<\/strong><br>The third way that we should conduct ourselves is that we always should be expecting&nbsp;God to manifest His answers to our prayers. The expectation is the outward expression of&nbsp;our faith that God will surely manifest what He promised. Psalm 5:3 declares: &#8220;My voice&nbsp;You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You,&nbsp;<strong>And I will&nbsp;look up<\/strong>. Here the psalmist is saying to God that he will pray to Him every morning, and&nbsp;afterwards shall expect His answers.<br>Remain blessed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying Faith In Your PrayersFrom our last discussions, we learned four key steps required to effectively apply our&nbsp;faith during prayers. These are:1. We come to God in prayers believing that He is real and true, and the only All Mighty&nbsp;God, who unfailingly rewards anyone who diligently seek Him.2. 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