In our lives we face different situations and challenges and when we pray God delivers us. The problem comes when we face a similar situation in life, we tend to think that the first way that God used to solve the first time is still the same way He will solve the current problem but God has different ways of solving a problem. Expecting God to solve our problems the first way He solved the first is often the reason we experience delays in receiving answers to our prayers. We should always pray with open hearts and allow God to have His own way not our preconceived ways of delivering us in any our problems.
Elijah, after declaring famine for three and a half years, God sent him to Cherith, where he drunk and got fed by ravens. His hunger problems got solved but it was just for a short time; the brook dried due to the famine. God then sent him to be fed by widow. 1 Kngs 17:1-16. Naturally he got used to raven s feeding him but God had to turn his attention and expectations from ravens back to God. God even today allows brooks and ravens which solved our problems to come to a dead end, so that we can turn our attention to Him.
In the wilderness journey, the children of Israel experienced thirst twice, the first time God told Moses to hit the rock, the second time he was told to speak to the rock. Ex 17:6, Num 20:8. The problem was the same but instructions to the solution was different although Moses disobeyed the second time, the fact that God gave water proves that He loved the people and not that He approved of Moses’ disobedience and that is why He punished him.
David fought many battles but God gave him victory but not the same way in the battles. When fighting the Philistines, God told him to go after them and smote them and he burnt down their images.2Sam 5:19-21. When the Philistines gathered themselves again and David sought God, God gave him different instructions, he was now to go around behind them and come upon them over opposite balsam trees. 2Sam 5:22-25. In another battle, the trees killed more people than the army of David. 2Sam 18:8
In the ministry of Jesus, He touched two blind people and they saw. Mat 9:27-30. In another instance, he took a blind man outside the town, spit on his eyes, and when asked whether he saw, he saw men as trees, and he put hands on Hid the second time and he saw everything clearly. Mark 8:22-25. In another instance, he saw a blind, he spat on the ground, made clay, anointed the eye of the blind and told him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam, and the blind man saw. John 9:1-7
Even when God was filling his disciples with the Holy Spirit, the first time they were sitting, Acts 2:2. In another instance as they were listening to the gospel, Acts 10:44, and another instance, when apostle Paul laid his hands on them. Acts 19:6. In the case of Jesus, He got filled with the Holy Spirit as he was being baptized. Luke 3:21-22
In all the examples above, we see the same problem but in all cases, God solves each differently. THERE IS NO FORMULAR ON HOW GOD WILL ANSWER YOUR PROBLEM. Don’t expect by listening to a testimony that the same way he helped someone, He will help you exactly the same way. He heals instantly and also through medicines. Whatever you maybe facing, be open to God to help you in the best way he thinks in your case. He wants to surprise you.
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