WHY SO LONG DEAR LORD?

Post date: May 12, 2016 8:04:01 PM

You may be tired of waiting for answers on some issues but God is not giving up on you neither is He intentionally keeping you waiting this long. While we look at ourselves now by counting days and years and time and season, God looks at us differently considering the future and the destiny He had purposed for each of us long before the issues we fear now comes into our lives. God will never shift ground on what His purpose are and what His desires are concerning our lives individually and collectively. He will never shift from His very best for us irrespective of what the devil may desire to do against us and what we desire for ourselves. In prayers, we ask of what we know, what we see, what we feel and what we think, but in answering, God gives what is the very best for that particular time. He will not give us less and will not give us that which does not address our needs, our future and good for our lives.

The life of Daniel is interesting in many ways; he was a man who loves God; desires God, seek His ways and instructions and gives himself to follow Him in all things. That desire drove him to pray in all things and trust God for the very best, and God did show Himself in and through him in many ways. It was through prayer that Daniel got out of prison and was able to stand before king Nebuchadnezzar; it was through prayer that he became his chief consultant; it was through prayers that he got employed by the king in his cabinet; it was through prayers that the king developed confidence in him; it was through prayers that he had the moral strength to be different in his conducts in the administration of his duties. It was through prayers that Daniel’s name appear in the Holy Scriptures; it was through prayers that he bonded strongly with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; it was through prayers that he got into trouble with the officials of the king and it was through prayers that he was envied and through prayers they plotted to destroy him. Daniels’ life was that of prayers and he trusted in his God and in his prayers above everything else.

God did many amazing things for him in many ways; He answered his prayers; released him from prison; promoted him in a foreign country; gave him respect among the people; advanced him in the kingdom greatly and sustain him despite the plots by men to either kill or destroy him. That same God who worked with Daniel, heard his prayers, delivered, promoted and defended him is the same God we serve and pray to today. As He did with and for Daniel, He will do for us; as He answered his prayers, He will answer ours; as He promoted him, He will promote us; as He defended him, He will defend us; and as He blessed him, so will He bless us. That same Daniel had another issue which he took to God in prayer as he normally does in previous cases expecting a prompt answer from God but this time, the result was different; unexpected delay set in but his expectations from God did not die because of the delay. He expected answers within hours or at most a day, but God in His love, mercy and knowledge, allowed the delay so that Daniel can wait much longer in prayers so that He could reveal what Daniel never knew and never anticipated could ever happen to the prayers of believers.

“Then behold, a hand touched me and set me unsteadily on my hands and knees. So he said to me, O Daniel, you highly regarded and greatly beloved man, understand the words that I am about to say to you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you. And while he was saying this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was standing in opposition to me for twenty-one days. Then, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is in regard to the days yet to come.” Daniel 10:10-14. Click here for prayer request.