What If God Says No?

What do we do if we feel that God is closing a door or asking us to wait on something we've prayed for? How can we wait well and maybe even learn and grow in the season of waiting?

Today I want to encourage you with the truth that even when God says "no" or "not yet" - something redemptive is around the corner. 

And even as we wait, we can offer our deepest desires back to Him and let Him transform what we once held to be so important. 

 

Verses Mentioned:

 

Matthew 7:7 
Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

 

Luke 18:1-8 

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

 

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