This is a tough topic to deal with. But thank God for the ministry of Holy Spirit. My youngest son and I were having a discussion. He was disturbed that God had not answered some of his prayers. I got his permission to tell this story if anyone was wondering. Anyway, he told me that he felt like God doesn’t do much based on the fact that some very key prayers in his opinion had gone unanswered. I asked him what prayers he was referring to. He went on to tell me that he wanted to be very popular at his school. I responded by saying to him. “I thought you were popular. You are a stand out athlete, and you are the lead singer in a band that you put together at your school. Everyone knows who you are.” He told me that he was not as popular as some of the other guys, and he gave me their names. Then, it dawned on me that he was talking about be “cool.” I went on to explain to him that its not cool to play your way through school. It may be flashy and get you laughs and in to the clicks, but it’s not going to get you very far. I told him that God had answered his prayers and that the influence that he will have when he is twenty one years of age will be huge, and that God would never give him something that he is not ready to handle. I told him that he has the options to play now and pay for it the rest of his life , or pay now and play for the rest of his life. I assured him that God does hear and answer pray according to what is best for us. Thank God he got it, as evidence by him saying that when he is twenty one and livivg out his dreams, all the so called cool people will now be envious of him because he has and they don’t. That was exactly the point. Prayer is a process. God knows how to give us what we ask for and not to give us what we ask for based on what is best for us.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Prayer takes time, and often, it takes time for us to realize that some prayers are not good for us right now and maybe even not at all. 

Rhon Johnson  ( 1966 –     )