I'm confused!

[darkest_red]

On Thursday night (well, very early Friday morning) I was praying...I'd been praying on and off all day (I was having a bad day) and all day I'd been praying over and over for God to help me make sense of everything that was happening and to show me a reason for it (and there was a fair bit of complaining that my friend has everything fall into her lap so easily) and then on Thursday night I was praying about it all again and I just heard something (or someone) say "Wait."

My first thought was that it could be God and I know I can get impatient when it comes to my life so it did seem to fit, especially with what I'd been praying about all day.

It could just be an over active imagination though, I guess.

What do you guys think?

(I hope this makes sense, I couldn't seem to word it very well)

[refugepsa91]

I've heard that voice too A lesson in patience, a lesson to accept that sometimes the answer isn't NO it's just WAIT. But as humans sometimes we want everything "yesterday" I know this, because now and again I fall into that trap, but God inevidably snaps me out of it, and he snaps me out of it by teaching me patience.

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[darkest_red]

I've heard that voice too    A lesson in patience,  a lesson to accept that sometimes the answer isn't NO it's just WAIT.  But as humans sometimes we want everything "yesterday"  I know this,  because now and again I fall into that trap, but God inevidably snaps me out of it,  and he snaps me out of it by teaching me patience.

Love and Blessings,

Angel

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So you do think there's more to it than an active imagination?

[refugepsa91]

Just answer two questions for me...ok?

1. When you heard "wait" what was your reaction, your first thought?

2. If you would have heard a person look at you and say "wait" while you were complaining what would your reaction have been?

I know these sound like weird questions, but they will help. Hang with me!

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[darkest_red]

Just answer two questions for me...ok?

1.  When you heard "wait" what was your reaction, your first thought?

2.  If you would have heard a person look at you and say "wait" while you were complaining what would your reaction have been?

I know these sound like weird questions,  but they will help.  Hang with me!

Love and Blessings,

Angel

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1. My first thought was that it was God.

2. In all honesty, probably "Why? I don't want too!" but there was none of that. It was just sort of "Okay, You're the boss" kinda thing.

[Guest Zayit]

My experience with talking with him is not some great booming voice, nor an abundance of words. Short, simple and to the point, but immediate. Sometimes when I am in the middle of asking he answers, or even saying something to someone else.

But my feeling about your conversation is that wait may mean more than you think it does. It may not mean to just sit and wait until the time is right but for you to make that time right, for you to get to a place to make it happen.

and there was a fair bit of complaining that my friend has everything fall into her lap so easily)

She is not you and you only see a small percent of her life. You may need to repent of these thoughts and jeolousy over what you think she has and then maybe the wait will be over?

[darkest_red]

My experience with talking with him is not some great booming voice, nor an abundance of words. Short, simple and to the point, but immediate. Sometimes when I am in the middle of asking he answers, or even saying something to someone else.

But my feeling about your conversation is that wait may mean more than you think it does. It may not mean to just sit and wait until the time is right but for you to make that time right, for you to get to a place to make it happen.

and there was a fair bit of complaining that my friend has everything fall into her lap so easily)

She is not you and you only see a small percent of her life. You may need to repent of these thoughts and jeolousy over what you think she has and then maybe the wait will be over?

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I actually see (or hear about) pretty much all of her life, we're very close and have been all of our lives.

I do repent regularly. It's not that I'm not happy for her either, I truly am... just impatient about my own life getting started properly, I guess!

[Guest Zayit]

But sweetheart, you aren't her, G-d created you entirely different! Even if you were born on the same day, same place , same time, there would be innumerable differences. You can't compare yourself to her, that is a strategy of the enemy! You are you, unique like no one else. You weren't made by a manufacturer, but a creator and he made you unique and with a special mission on this earth to do for him. So don't ever compare yourself to anyone, that will always bring bad not good. Be happy for what your friend has, and rejoice with her. :But know that the L-RD loves you just as much and will do things for you at your pace in the time he already alloted it. His ways are higher than our ways.

Here is something that is very useful

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the L-rd with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, In ALL your ways acknowledge him (include him) , and he will direct your paths.

So true!

[refugepsa91]

When you feel a peace, and like you said "ok your the boss" then I would rejoice that the Lord is telling you to wait. Its great to know He is listening isn't it?

I asked those two question because how we react when God is speaking to us in the middle of a rant and how we would react to a human speaking to us in that rant. I have been there..believe me I know...God told me once "thats what your here for" in the middle of my complaining and bemoaning...and I can honestly say if a "person" would have said that to me I would have not reacted in a kindly way... But when He said it (a voice in my head, soft and quiet, glad I heard it over my moaning) I felt an instant peace...because instantly I knew He was right.

Us impatient people only learn patience through practice. And believe me the Lord will send you lots of practice When you start to feel impatience over the way things are going in your life...hand it over to God...just say "ok God, I can wait until you give me an answer, or until you lead me in the direction you want me to go."

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[amazingrace]

Darkest red, when I read your OP, this passage immediately came to mind:

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (NKJ says to give you a future and a hope). 12. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will harken unto you.

I think the real question is not whether God said "wait", but rather ask what does He want you to wait for? I have no doubt that He is going to bless you, but in His own time, in His own way, and that part of the blessing is in the patience learned by waiting.