{"id":702,"date":"2017-10-02T21:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arisesister.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2018-02-06T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T07:32:11","slug":"why-wont-god-answer-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisesister.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/why-wont-god-answer-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Won’t God Answer Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I fell really sick. It\u2019s been more than 5 years since I felt this sick. I was in so much pain and it felt like the pain won\u2019t go away. Everything hurt! Even talking felt like a lot of work! It suddenly dawned on me how much of a blessing health is and how much we take it for granted. Until it slips out of your grip for a second you won\u2019t really know what you had and how blessed you are to have it. Well anyway that\u2019s just by the way. That\u2019s not exactly the topic I wanted to write on today.<\/p>\n

So while I was sick, lying in my bed and in so much pain, I turned to God (of course) and asked him to heal me. I asked him to take the pain away\u2026 But it didn\u2019t happen immediately as I thought it would. Days passed, a week went by, still\u2026 no healing, the pain was still there. So I started questioning God. I thought about all the bible passages that say all I needed to do was ask, that said sickness has no place in my body. Why was I still sick for this long! Why wasn\u2019t God answering me!? Why didn\u2019t he heal me?<\/p>\n

I know this hasn\u2019t happened to just me. I know most of you out there get these questions in your heads too when it seems like all your prayers are going unanswered. When you\u2019ve applied every possible principle in the bible and still nothing happens. We all wonder\u2026 WHY?<\/p>\n

If I tell I know the exact answers to these questions, I wouldn\u2019t be very truthful. The truth is I don\u2019t know why. There are just certain questions that we can\u2019t answer neither can we understand. But as the curious human beings that we are (or atleast that I am), we still try to seek answers. So that\u2019s exactly what I did. I asked Him, why he wouldn\u2019t heal me. He of all people must have known the kind of pain I felt and how miserable I was. So why didn\u2019t he relieve me of the pain immediately? And of course He didn\u2019t give me any direct answers (typical!). He just reminded me of a few persons and these were of help to answer the questions I had in some way. Hopefully these persons and their stories could also be of help to you too when you have similar questions like those I had.<\/p>\n

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  1. Job \u2013 Would you condemn the Lord to justify yourself? (Job 40:8)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all familiar with the famous story of Job in the bible. The innocent man and very upright servant of God (acknowledged by God himself) who did his best to please God and obey his commandments. Yet God let the devil inflict sickness on him and take away everything he owned. When Job questioned God, God in response asked him some really difficult questions. None of which Job could answer. They were all about God\u2019s might, ability and power. God asked Job if was able to do what he does and of course he couldn\u2019t (see Job chapters 38-40). The honest truth is, we really are in no position to question God or condemn him. All we have to do is trust that He is a good and just God. At the end of the day, everything worked out well for Job and everything he lost was restored to him. Sometimes all we need is a little more patience. When the answers don’t seem to be coming immediately, hold on a little longer.<\/p>\n

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    1. Paul \u2013 His grace is sufficient for you (2Corinthians 12:8-9)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Paul spoke about a \u2018messenger of satan\u2019, a \u2018thorn in his flesh\u2019 that tormented him. He said he asked God to take this away from him 3 times and what God will say to him each time was \u2018My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness\u2019. This I just couldn\u2019t make sense out of when I first read it. I mean this is Paul, the true, and faithful servant of God who was ready to die for the gospel (eventually did). Through him thousands were healed. Why wouldn\u2019t he get his healing? Then again Paul said this was given him to \u2018keep him from being conceited\u2019 and God\u2019s power was shown through his weakness. In every circumstance, there is a reason why God let\u2019s certain things happen to us and though it wouldn\u2019t always make sense to us, we can take solace in the fact that God\u2019s grace will always see us through.<\/p>\n

      There\u2019s many more examples of people in the bible who didn\u2019t exactly get what they requested of God but they didn\u2019t stop loving him neither did they condemn Him. Moses wasn\u2019t granted the request to enter the Promised Land, God didn\u2019t grant David\u2019s request to build the temple, even Jesus wasn\u2019t granted the request for the cup to be taken away from him. These were all people God deeply loved still he didn\u2019t grant their requests because He had good reasons not to and we cannot question God\u2019s decisions or actions. We can wait patiently on him and pray for His will to be done instead.<\/p>\n

      \u2018Do you have an arm like God\u2019s and can your voice thunder like his? Then adorn yourself with glory and splendour, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.\u2019 Job 40:9-10NIV<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

      Remain blessed<\/p>\n

      Apiseh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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