Are All Prayers Answered?

[MajestyJo]

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding; in all ways acknowledge Him, and he
will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

As I have said many times before, God says, "Yes, No, and you got to be kidding."

God is always there, it is me that goes away. If I don't hear the answer, it is because I don't want to and am turning a deaf ear.

I will never forget the day that I asked for help, I was given a message, "Give thanks it is already on it's way" and as I got up from my rug saying thank you, thank you, thank you, before I had stood up all the way, the phone was ringing giving me the answer to my need.

There have been a couple of times in particular where I was in a situation and didn't know how to handle it, I was full of fear and with no knowing as to what to do. I prayed and I felt the touch of God from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. I was in total chaos and shaking, and there was instant peace. I was able to handle the situation and know what to do.

Another time, I was doing a meditation, asked for healing, stretched back on my lazy boy and I again felt the hand of God, and when I got up, I had gotten what I called my zig to go with my zag. It was like I had been frozen from the waist down (probably because of the rapes), and I had freedom of movement. I lost the fear of putting the wrong foot forward, of saying and doing the wrong thing, but most of all, I found that God does answer prayer.

My God does answer prayer, but doesn't always give me the answer I want to hear and I have to find acceptance.

I also had to accept that my God knows what is best for me, He sees the whole picture.

[MajestyJo]

From what I have heard and have come to believe, God gives us choices. I don't think God chose to do her harm. Her husband and her children made choices. I firmly believe that cancer is caused by unexpressed feelings and thoughts, mostly of a negative variety and they are just cankers that corrode the soul.

We often pray that someone get well or is relieved of their pain, yet how God chooses to answer our prayer often makes me careful of how I ask. I try to ask for their Higher Good and that they be given what they need, not what I think they require.

I am glad her faith was so strong and that she hung onto God's hand through it all. It certainly is a heavy burden to carry.

My aunt prayed to be taken home when she lost her eye sight. God didn't answer her prayer for two years. She was a healthy lady, her body was in fine physical shape. She had few wrinkles and didn't look her age, which was 83 when she passed away. She had dementia at the end. She was a lady who did for everyone else all her life, including me. I missed her very much. It was important for me not to keep her spirit here because of my grief. Many times I would go to pick up the phone to call her. I had to let her go.

For the past week, I have been praying and asking for help with my pain. I have always asked for help each day, but this was a more of an emotional and spiritual help, going beyond the physical problem.

God put three awesome people in my path. Another lady, who I met on Monday and again today who I hadn't seen for a long time, and all of a sudden she started appearing in my life in the last few months.

When we ask, but more importantly, when we are willing, the teacher appears. I have so much anger, combined with guilt, resentment, pissed off, fear, did I mention anger, and not only from today, but anger from my past at 18. I have very little memory before the age of 14. A lot of it is body memory and needs to be healed. How can you heal what you don't remember. With God's help, there is no other way or solution.

A lot of it is also trust issues. For some reason, I expect people in recovery to be honest and I realized that I put to many expectations on them. Their not willing to look at their issues is their problem not mine. So I could see my control issues showing and I know that when I am in control, I am in my dis-ease, not in recovery. If I have to control it, it is already out of control. For me, it is better left to my God. I prefer to just go with the flow. Let things be. I don't have to make it happen. I can't make something out of nothing. Yet I felt like nothing, and God made something out of me.

He is the answer to my prayer!

Posted on another site in 2010.

[MajestyJo]

So often we pray, and we feel our prayers are justified and worthy, yet deep down, they are often self serving and our will and not for the Higher Good of All. I can't play 'god' with someone else's life and ask that they be given what I think they need, but ask for what they need according to their Higher Good.

There may be a reason they haven't received yet, maybe they are not truly willing to receive or willing to go the road they need to do if they open up to receive. They feel there are conditions and and things they need to do that they are not willing to do.

They are selective, and only willing to do what they want to do and not willing to open to God will, especially if it comes in a different form or comes in words and phrases unknown to them. I think the call it contempt prior to investigation.

God does answer prayer. Sometimes He says No. Other times He says Not right now. Other Times, or so I was told, "You got to be kidding, where did you get that idea? Let's stop that right here, forget it even!" No pouting, no hissy fits, no stamping of the feet, no wheedling, and self-justification. No means no!

[MajestyJo]