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His time to answer them differed from the thoughts of those who prayed them. God's time to answer prayer is the best time. The time between prayer and fulfillment is often a time for testing and strengthening faith. We must realize that unanswered prayers will often become answered prayers, but that God's ideal time to answer them has not yet arrived. From our perspective, it seems that God is delaying, but from God's perspective, His answer is exactly on time.

  • Separating "ora" from "labora" - "Ora"is Latin for "prayer," and "labora," for "work." These two may not be separated. They are the two "oars" we need to use to direct the "boat" of life upon its proper course. Using only one or the other will send our boat in circles.

  • Tolerating instead of fighting against sin - "Bosom sins" are those which lie most deeply in our personal lusts and characters. They are sins which we strongly desire or those to which we are intimately attached. We may test ourselves on this matter by asking, "Do I pray against or 'skirt around' my bosom sins in prayer? Do I strive to avoid or 'flirt with' my bosom sins in practice?" Do you know the struggle of praying and striving against yourself, against your bosom sins?


      • Which practical corrections, for various stumbling blocks pertaining to praying urgently, are illustrated in the following scriptural examples?

        And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

        So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

        And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

        And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

        - I Kings 18:41-44

    Why were the following children specially seen as children from the Lord?
    - Isaac
    - Samuel
    - John the Baptist





    For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

    - Habakkuk 2:3

    I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

    For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

    But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

    0 wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the I body of this death?

    - Romans 7:21-24
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