The delay in the answer to prayer

Keep on praying.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

One of the greatest drawbacks to the life of prayer is that the answer does not come as quickly as we expect. (...) There may be a reason for the delay, and the waiting may bring a blessing. Our desire must grow deeper and stronger, and we must ask with our whole heart. God puts us into the practicing school of persevering prayer so that our weak faith may be strengthened.

Above all, God wants to draw us into closer fellowship with Him. When our prayers are not answered, we learn that the fellowship and love of God are more to us than the answers of our requests, and then we continue in prayer (...).

Ask whether your prayer is really in accordance with the will of God and the Word of God. Ask if it is in the right spirit and in the name of Christ. You will learn that the delay in the answer is one of the most precious ways God gives you His grace.

365 Daily Devotions on Prayer

Andrew Murray

What was man created for?

"And then look at man again; man’s nature. What was man created for? To live in the likeness of God, and as His image. Now, if we have been created in the image and likeness of God, we can find our happiness in nothing except that in which God finds His happiness. The more like Him we are the happier".

Andrew Murray - The Master's indwelling

Oh, the beauty of my God!

...if we have any true conception of what God is, the art of fellowship with Him will come naturally, and will be a delight.” Yes, if we believed God to be only joy to the one who comes to Him, only a fountain of unlimited blessing, how we should give up all for Him! Has not joy a far stronger attraction than anything in the world? Is it not in every beauty, or in every virtue, in every pursuit, the joy that is set before us that draws? And if we believe that God is a fountain of joy, and sweetness, and power to bless, how our hearts will turn aside from everything, and say: “Oh, the beauty of my God! I rejoice in Him alone”.

Andrew Murray - The Master's indwelling

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Who is God? - Andrew Murray

Who is God? The great Being for whom alone the universe exists; in whom alone it can have its happiness. It came from Him. It cannot find any rest or joy but in Him. Oh, that Christians understood and believed that God is a fountain of happiness, perfect, everlasting blessedness! What would the result be? Every Christian would say, “The more I can have of God, the happier. The more of God’s will, and the more of God’s love, and the more of God’s fellowship, the happier.” How Christians, if they believed that with their whole heart, would, with the utmost ease, give up everything that would separate them from God! 

Andrew Murray - The Master's indwelling