He Answers

There have been many times in my life where I have wondered whether or not God truly hears my prayers or not. I had someone once tell me that God answers prayers the way that He wants to and within His will, not necessarily the way that I want things to work out. After hearing that, I then assumed that nothing I wanted or planned was within God's will. I carried this out to every plan that I made. I had these desires to do certain things, but I believed that God didn't want me to do those things. Lately, I have relied a lot on prayer. I am not saying that I never prayed before, but there have been times recently where I have felt as if prayer was all that I had. I am slowly learning that it is not necessarily that God doesn't want me doing any of the things that I would like to do, its just that it is all in His timing. Just because I want something to happen right away or I want it to happen at the exact moment that I would like it to doesn't mean that God is going to it allow it to happen. I am slowly learning that within His timing, He will answer prayers. God does listen, and He does answer in His own way and His own time. Simple truth that many of us have probably heard many times, but one that can be hard to consider.