{"id":1210,"date":"2019-08-27T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywamjax.org\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2019-08-27T15:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:32:28","slug":"when-we-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywamjax.org\/when-we-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Don&#8217;t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there were two very specific prayer requests that were weighing heavy on my heart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each of them involved life and death situations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each of them involved people who are in the prime of life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These two prayers would come to my mind day and night.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I would wake up and find myself crying out to God in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever begged God for something?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You were so sure of what the answer should be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You reasoned it out in your mind WHY a certain answer would be best for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>As I continued to pray for several days, the answers came.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But those answers weren\u2019t what I had prayed or hoped for.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was SURE God was going to let everything be OK.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, God\u2019s plans were not in alignment with mine or should we say, my plans were not in alignment with God\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In this life, there will come difficult circumstances.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From our human perspective, we may pray with the answer \u201cwe\u201d feel is best, already on our mind.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We can\u2019t see or understand how anything less could be \u201cthe best\u201d in a circumstance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But we only see from an earthly perspective.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We cannot see the big picture of life as God does.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bible says, \u201cMy thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If we have a relationship with Jesus and believe in a sovereign God, then even when our prayers aren\u2019t answered how we would like, we can trust that God sees the big picture and He is using that circumstance in ways we may never understand this side of heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there were two very specific prayer requests that were weighing heavy on my heart.\u00a0 Each of them involved life and death situations.\u00a0 Each of them involved people who are in the prime of life.\u00a0 These two prayers would come to my mind day and night.\u00a0 I would wake up and find myself crying out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When We Don&#039;t Understand &#187; 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