Answers to Prayer
The best answers to prayer are those we have to wait and trust for. If we are answered quickly, let us be thankful; but let us be assured that by-and-by God will change His method with us, and that we shall be often made to wait.
“I will cry unto God… that performeth all things for me” (Psalm 62:2). Every such prayer must be answered; but we must wait God’s time and way. The finest fruit of the Spirit ripens the latest; the longer we have to wait for answers to our prayers, the richer the blessing we are blessed while we continue to pray; faith grows by waiting; the blessing is full when it comes, and the time of the answer is seen to be the right time.
Asking of God what is most precious in His sight, we surely obtain all inferior good. Thus did Solomon. (1 Kings 3:6-14.) All mercies are bound up with God’s gift of Christ.
It is not good for us to obtain deliverance and gifts from God, until we fully justify Him in His way of dealing with us. (Psalm 22), that such rebukes of God’s love may not be needful.
Many of God’s people pray without waiting for God to work in His own time and manner. Let us not quiet conscience by praying, and then, in fleshly haste, take our own way.
The way wherein it pleases God to answer our prayer, if we have a right mind, will always please us well.