What do we do while we wait for our prayers to be answered?
In Daniel 10:11-13, Daniel's prayer was answered the first day he prayed, but he had to wait 21 days for the answer to come.
1. God hears our prayers.
Psalm 18:6
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In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.
2. God answers our prayers.
1 John 5:15
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And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Matthew 7:11
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If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
3. God uses the time that we wait for our prayers to be answered.
Matthew 7:11
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If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Our struggle is to not take matters into our own hands.
4. Don't waste the time that we wait for our prayers to be answered.
Psalm 130:1-6
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Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
A. Focus on God's ways.
Hebrews 10:23-25
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Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
B. Focus on God's Word.
Find a verse and make it personal. God's will is His Word.
1 John 5:14
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And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
C. Focus on God's work.
Hebrews 12:1
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Mark 9:23
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And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
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