Proverbs 13:12 (NKJV) 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Hope deferred; that thing that you have been waiting for and praying for, for so long.
You set your heart on something and begin to seek after it. Time goes by. You wait. You pray. You wait some more.
Sometimes we can grow impatient and our hope begins to wane and fade. Our heart begins to feel sick because we have hoped and waited for so long.
Before we know it, we begin to sink into despair and wonder if our prayer was even heard.
Has this ever happened to you? We can honestly say that it has with us.
Sometimes when praying for something, we get so focused on that something that we lose sight of everything else, and that thing can become an obsession if we’re not careful.
And if we allow it to, that obsession can pull us away from God if we take our eyes off of Him and put them on the thing we’re praying for. And desperate situations can be even more stressful, if we’re waiting on a breakthrough.
But we should never give up hope and let our situation or our pursuit of something bring us to the point where we are straddling the fence and about to walk away from God if we don’t get our answer.
Our answer will come if we don’t give up. It won’t always come when we think it should, or how we think it should. But we can’t give up on God and walk away.
If we give up on God, we have lost more than just a prayer that seems to be unanswered. If we give up on God, we have lost everything.
So for those who are straddling the fence, you’re standing on that line and getting ready to cross it and walk away, don’t do it!
Stick it out and lean on God with everything in you. Press into Him and pull on Him.
And when the desire, the thing you’ve been praying for, comes to fulfillment, it will be like a tree of life.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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