I had a friend say something to me the other day that has really stuck with me. somewhere in our conversation she said " I keep praying and praying and hoping that God will help me fix this. and every time I pray I feel like I'm not getting the help I need. nothing in my life is changing."
She isn't the first friend that has said this to me, and I can imagine that she won't be the last. Countless times I know I have felt that God isn't answering my prayers. But as I was talking to my friend about her problem and where she see's the solution to be, I came to a realization; some times we sit there and think that God is confined to a few cookie cutter answers to our prayer. we seem to believe we can place God in this little box and tell him that he has to either say YES or NO, but I've found that many times in my life, when I have prayed to him for guidance, he didn't give a yes or no, nor did he rework my life so that everything fell into place. instead he put people in my life who through conversation, or just through being there to listen to me talk, gave me the answer that I was seeking through God.
In Jeremiah 33:3 God says "Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge"
that does not mean that he will sit there and speak to you during your prayer, but he will lead you to the thinks you may not know and he will lead you to the answers you seek.
