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RE: WAITING UPON GOD

in #religious7 years ago

You don't understand how God works. You sound like someone with little experience or knowledge of God or you would know that God often doesn't give us what we ask for.

I prayed for my first unborn child. It was stillborn. I prayed for my second unborn child. It was stillborn. I prayed for the health of my wife. She still lost her transplanted kidney. I continued to pray for her health. She died of complications from kidney disease when she was 30. Sometimes it's God's will to take us through tragedies. God's biggest desire is to make us like his son. That's why you should expect trials.

(James 1:2-4 NIV) Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, {3} because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. {4} Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

(1 Peter 1:6-7 NIV) In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. {7} These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

(1 Peter 4:12-13 NIV) Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. {13} But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

Faith isn't presuming that God will give us whatever we want. It's knowing that God is always with us and will give us the strength to deal with whatever comes our way. These verses show an accurate understanding of faith:

(Daniel 3:17-18 NIV) If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. {18} But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."

(Mark 1:40-41 NIV) A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." {41} Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!"

(Hebrews 11:6 NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.