Ps. 34:17 "The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth & delivereth them out of all their troubles."
The first time you prayed for your mate to come home, God answered... he set an Appointed Day for your mate to return. (And HE WILL COME HOME on the Appointed Day! Prov. 7:20) Your mate will not return before this day. No matter how much you pray, plead, beg, whine, cry, fast or whatever, the Appointed Day WILL NOT CHANGE. Regardless of what you do, it will not cause your Appointed Day to come any sooner. Now this does not mean in any sense to stop praying... we must ALWAYS continue to pray and Seek God's face for his will in our life!
So if we KNOW that God has heard our prayers and we KNOW that God HAS ANSWERED our prayers, and has given us our Appointed Day, then Why do we doubt? Why is it so hard to trust totally in God? Because Satan KNOWS about this Appointed Day, he knows HIS time is short, and his main weapon against us is DOUBT! If he can fill us full of doubt, we will turn our focus off of Christ and onto circumstances and then we just "might" give up! IF we give up, we do not reach our Appointed Day. The journey to our Appointed Day is a spiritual battle, a refining process to strengthen our character, draw us near to God, build our faith, and remove our impurities.
We can not give up! The journey is often times long and hard, but there is an end! We must ENDURE until we reach our Appointed Day! God give us the strength to endure!!! We may not always feel victorious, but if we just ENDURE!!! Wait on the Lord, allow him to mold us, and make us what we need to be in Christ. We will ENDURE! Keep your eyes on God regardless of how bad Satan tries to distract you... ENDURE, persevere, stand firm, hang in there, until you reach your APPOINTED DAY!!! ~Scriptures~
Heb. 6:15 ~ And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Prov. 19-20 ~ For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey, He has taken a bag of money with him, And he Will Come Home on the Appointed Day! James 1:2-3 ~ Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 1 John 5:14 ~ Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
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