10-06-2004, 08:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Sue Johnson
Evening Rita
Have you ever wanted something very badly and you have prayed for it.......then prayers are not answered and you wonder why? Then weeks...months....years later...you look back and realise that the blessing was actually in NOT receiving what you thought you wanted?
Sue
This reminds me of the little girl who's birthday was in a few weeks and she planned a picnic... all her friends laughed and said it may rain , she said she prayed and asked God that it should not rain on her birthday.
Lo and behold, the day arrived and it poured... all day long...
her friends still giggled and then asked what had gone wrong, did she stop praying to which she answered : NO, I asked God but He said NO!
Sometimes we do not hear God because none are so deaf than those who do not wish to hear!!!
I think we often think by praying things will and should go the way we have asked for it, especially when it concerns ourselves, our relatives or our friends, but God knows best.
Also reminds me of an interview I heard in SA just after Mugabe was elected as Prime minister... one of the elders in the church said they prayed for days on end that Mugabe should not win the election, yet he did, but in retrospect, they realised that there would have been much more blood shed had things not happened that way.
Blessings to all of you.
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