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This was part of my devotional this morning and I thought to share it with you. No matter what you are going through, God knows, hears and sees, so take comfort in this. All things will work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose, and if you are part of this group? Then rejoice!

Delayed (from Streams in the Desert)
"Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs; . . . they shall afflict them four hundred years; . . . and afterward they shall come out with great substance" (Gen. 15:12-14).
An assured part of God's pledged blessing to us is delay and suffering. A delay in Abram's own lifetime that seemed to put God's pledge beyond fulfillment was followed by seemingly unendurable delay of Abram's descendants. But it was only a delay: they "came out with great substance." The pledge was redeemed.
God is going to test me with delays; and with the delays will come suffering, but through it all stands God's pledge: His new covenant with me in Christ, and His inviolable promise of every lesser blessing that I need. The delay and the suffering are part of the promised blessing; let me praise Him for them today; and let me wait on the Lord and be of good courage and He will strengthen my heart.
--C. G. Trumbull

“Unanswered yet, the prayer your lips have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fail, is hope declining,
And think you all in vain those falling tears?
Say not the Father has not heard your prayer,
You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere!

“Unanswered yet – though when you first presented
This one petition at the Father’s throne
It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,
So anxious was your heart to have it done?
If years have passed since then, do not despair,
For God will answer you, sometime, somewhere.

“Unanswered yet? But you are not unheeded;
The promises of God forever stand;
To Him our days and years alike are equal.
‘Hold faith in God!’ It is your Lord’s command.
Hold on to Jacob’s angel, and your prayer
Shall bring a blessing down, sometime, somewhere.” – Ophelia G. Browning


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