Prayers - When the first answer was proven to be "wait"

[CalledByChrist]

As the title describes, when did you pray for something and receive a "wait" response?

At the time of praying, these "wait" responses can sometimes feel like a no. They can also appear as a yes, and then tomorrow comes and goes, then weeks and months go by and you wonder if the answer was actually no all along.

In order to prove that the response was actually "wait", the desired thing must have come to fruition, right?

So what are your examples?
How long did it take from prayer to "result"?
How did it feel as you waited?

 

[JaumeJ]

Having understood from the inception of my journey with Jesuis Yeshua that the answer to any petition could be no, I suppose all have been fulfilled.
No matter, my prayer has always been according to His will and thanksgiving.

 

[CalledByChrist]

Having understood from the inception of my journey with Jesuis Yeshua that the answer to any petition could be no, I suppose all have been fulfilled.
No matter, my prayer has always been according to His will and thanksgiving.

Any examples you can share?

 

[Lynx]

What I have learned from experience:

When God says wait, go do something else. If I just sit around and wait, I am wasting time.

It's okay to check in with God every once in awhile and see if wait has turned to okay yet. There's a fine line between checking and being obsessive.

 

[JaumeJ]

Any examples you can share?

One when I was hitching back from Boulder to my mountain campsite in the Rockies, I asked the Father: "Father, I am so tired from this long day in Denver, and Boulder, If youdo not mind, would you send some Jews to my campsite who are not argumentative, but genuinely seeking and curious.?"
Late that same night, I was sitting by my pup tent when out of the trees and bushes around my clearing, six Jews from the Bronx practically fell into my camp. I shared Jesus Yeshua with them for about an hour or so, as they listened, seemingly quite intensively.
I rejoiced, and rested quite well afterwards.

 

[Karlon]

As the title describes, when did you pray for something and receive a "wait" response?

At the time of praying, these "wait" responses can sometimes feel like a no. They can also appear as a yes, and then tomorrow comes and goes, then weeks and months go by and you wonder if the answer was actually no all along.

In order to prove that the response was actually "wait", the desired thing must have come to fruition, right?

So what are your examples?
How long did it take from prayer to "result"?
How did it feel as you waited?

never. it's an automatic event that you are going to wait. being on Jesus' side, you almost always have to wait. just a temporary wait. remember, God doesn't live with time like we do. consider that what you asked God for may not be what he says is proper for you. i'll tell you to handle this: ask & forget! yes, it's true. the answer will arrive quicker!!! i'm, still waiting for things in the decades God told me i would have.

 

[CalledByChrist]

One when I was hitching back from Boulder to my mountain campsite in the Rockies, I asked the Father: "Father, I am so tired from this long day in Denver, and Boulder, If youdo not mind, would you send some Jews to my campsite who are not argumentative, but genuinely seeking and curious.?"
Late that same night, I was sitting by my pup tent when out of the trees and bushes around my clearing, six Jews from the Bronx practically fell into my camp. I shared Jesus Yeshua with them for about an hour or so, as they listened, seemingly quite intensively.
I rejoiced, and rested quite well afterwards.

That does sound like a really amazing experience .

 

[CalledByChrist]

It's okay to check in with God every once in awhile and see if wait has turned to okay yet.

Have you any examples of how you knew this "wait" has turned into an "okay"?

 

[CalledByChrist]

never. it's an automatic event that you are going to wait. being on Jesus' side, you almost always have to wait. just a temporary wait. remember, God doesn't live with time like we do. consider that what you asked God for may not be what he says is proper for you. i'll tell you to handle this: ask & forget! yes, it's true. the answer will arrive quicker!!! i'm, still waiting for things in the decades God told me i would have.

Have you any specific examples of when you forgot and time went by but you ended up with what you asked for? Maybe perhaps only when you forgot about it?

 

[Lynx]

Have you any examples of how you knew this "wait" has turned into an "okay"?

Yup.

 

[Karlon]

never. it's an automatic event that you are going to wait. being on Jesus' side, you almost always have to wait. just a temporary wait. remember, God doesn't live with time like we do. consider that what you asked God for may not be what he says is proper for you. i'll tell you to handle this: ask & forget! yes, it's true. the answer will arrive quicker!!! i'm, still waiting for things in the decades God told me i would have.

Have you any specific examples of when you forgot and time went by but you ended up with what you asked for? Maybe perhaps only when you forgot about it?

no. i remember everything i asked Jesus for. but there is something very similar to your statement. i'll ask Jesus something, not for healing, He tells me the answer but not clearly or spoken as thru the Holy Spirit & it ends up that i knew the answer without Him telling me!!!!! i know that's weird but that's the most accurate way i can describe it.

 

[CalledByChrist]

Yup.

Why not share them? It was the point of the original post.

 

[Lynx]

Why not share them? It was the point of the original post.

Oh... You just asked if I HAVE any so...

(Sorry. Bad joke. My mother is an english nerd. Blame it on her.)

Back when I first got into video games, I had no life. I used video games as a life substitute. When I started going to church and developing a life, video games conflicted with this. I had to put down games for a time until I developed a life. That took a long talk with God and selling my playstation 2. That hurt.

Yes, PS2. Yes this was back in the day. Yes I am an old phart.

Now that I have a life, I have been able to reintegrate video games into it. But now they take their proper place.

It's important to keep a balance between checking in on the wait and nagging. I didn't ask God every day "can I go back to playing games again?" I went about making a life for myself. After a while wait turned to okay.

 

[Lynx]

Nota bien: With my particular wait, okay might change back to wait at any time. If I ever feel like life is getting in the way of my video games, it's time to put them away again. Maybe for a year, maybe for a decade, maybe forever. But they will never be a substitute for a life again, not for me.

 

[CalledByChrist]

Oh... You just asked if I HAVE any so...

(Sorry. Bad joke. My mother is an english nerd. Blame it on her.)

Back when I first got into video games, I had no life. I used video games as a life substitute. When I started going to church and developing a life, video games conflicted with this. I had to put down games for a time until I developed a life. That took a long talk with God and selling my playstation 2. That hurt.

Yes, PS2. Yes this was back in the day. Yes I am an old phart.

Now that I have a life, I have been able to reintegrate video games into it. But now they take their proper place.

It's important to keep a balance between checking in on the wait and nagging. I didn't ask God every day "can I go back to playing games again?" I went about making a life for myself. After a while wait turned to okay.

Thanks for sharing. This seems like a great example!

I too enjoy video games, I played as far back as PlayStation 1 and SNES! I also know that they can get in the way of real life, this can especially be the case when you are young as certain games can be very addictive!

Yours is a good example of how the thing isn't necessarily the problem, but the when and why needed a little more understanding before it could be provided. Because your prayers were answered, you wanted video games but also wanted more to life, at the moment of putting the video games down you probably felt that one had to be given up over the other, but now you realise that both can coexist without issues as its a balancing act.

God's good, I mean we can cause all sorts of issues for ourselves, warranted or not and He will be like "There's a lesson in this!", teach us and then grant the solution.

 

[Lynx]

Thanks for sharing. This seems like a great example!

I too enjoy video games, I played as far back as PlayStation 1 and SNES! I also know that they can get in the way of real life, this can especially be the case when you are young as certain games can be very addictive!

Yours is a good example of how the thing isn't necessarily the problem, but the when and why needed a little more understanding before it could be provided. Because your prayers were answered, you wanted video games but also wanted more to life, at the moment of putting the video games down you probably felt that one had to be given up over the other, but now you realise that both can coexist without issues as its a balancing act.

God's good, I mean we can cause all sorts of issues for ourselves, warranted or not and He will be like "There's a lesson in this!", teach us and then grant the solution.

Oh I knew they could coexist. I just couldn't do it for a while. I always knew it was theoretically possible, but I had to move games out of the way until I had enough practice at real life to make IT my life.

It's like you gotta move the old building out before you can build the new building on the same piece of ground. After you get the new building up, you can add on a room for what the old building used to hold. But you can't start until you get the old building out of the way for a while.