Losing Hope While Waiting for an Answered PrayerSample

Hope When You Want To Give Up

After the Silent Season and Wilderness Season, if my answer still hasn't come.....I start to give up. On God. On my desire. On hope. I start to think that maybe it's not God's will for my desire to come to fruition. I begin to think that perhaps it will be a long time before my desire comes to pass, and I let go. I don't like the feeling of emptiness or a hole in my life due to a lack of a fulfilled desire. So, I forget the desire and stop asking God for it; I place in my mind that I have to accept that it won't happen and try move on.

Losing hope is a place of losing faith in something. Faith that it will happen. Faith that there will be a positive outcome. Faith that you can trust the situation to turn out for your good. When we give up, we are telling God we don’t trust Him and that He won’t fulfill His promises. Now, sometimes, there are desires that we need to let go of due to them not being God’s will and/or because we never had the right intentions behind the request. But you can be prayerful about this, and God will reveal His truth. If it has been spoken that it is permissive in His will, don’t give up on what you’ve asked for! If you give up, you won’t recognize when God has brought you the desire. The enemy wants you to give up because He knows the glory that will come from God answering the prayer. He will do it. He will provide. What if David gave up on becoming King? What if Job felt there was no God? What if Hannah gave up on God blessing her womb? Though they may have had their ups and downs; ultimately they didn't give up.

Don't give up. Keep going. There is goodness on the other side.

Reflection Day III

Find a story in the bible that relates to a desire you have and waiting on fulfillment. For instance, I am waiting on God to restore my child loss from the past with a quiver full of children. I try my best to keep in mind the story of Sarah (Genesis 21) as well as Hannah (1 Samuel 1: 19-20) for encouragement in my wait.