{"id":2461,"date":"2014-10-19T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2014-09-07T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:35:35","slug":"the-quick-fix-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"The Quick Fix Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keep<\/a>Living in a \u201cquick-fix\u201d society, we would all prefer God to instantly, magically fix our dire circumstances. But God is not always in the \u201cquick-fix\u201d game. Prayer is not the easy way out. We don\u2019t look to God to do for us what we are too lazy to do for ourselves. Sometimes God offers quick delivery and sometimes he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we want that quick fix so badly that we don\u2019t even ask God, we tell him what to do and how to do it. Remember that prayer is asking God to do \u201chis thing,\u201d not getting him to do \u201cour thing.\u201d God\u2019s timing may not be as quick as we would like but his timing is always perfect.<\/p>\n

Indeed God is capable of immediately easing our pain or difficulties, but he doesn\u2019t always touch us with a magic wand where it hurts to make it better \u2013 like kissing a \u201cboo-boo.\u201d Although he might sprinkle a little fairy dust of stamina, encouragement, perseverance or peace of mind over us \u2013 so we can make it through the hard times. God may not provide escape from difficult circumstances, but he might give us the strength we need to face, conquer, and endure them.<\/p>\n

Sometimes God isn\u2019t as concerned about our circumstances as he is about our reaction to them or what we can learn from them. Sometimes God offers pieces of solutions \u2013 bit by bit. Maybe he will plant a seed coming from something we read, a phrase, the lyrics to a song we\u2019re listening to, something someone says off handedly and these things start us on the road to finding a solution to our dilemma. God is more interested in our spiritual growth than making us feel good.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little poem to illustrate\u2026<\/p>\n

I asked for strength,
\nAnd God gave me difficulties to make me strong;<\/p>\n

I asked for wisdom,
\nAnd God gave me problems to learn to solve;<\/p>\n

I asked for prosperity,
\nAnd God gave me brain and brawn to work;<\/p>\n

I asked for courage,
\nAnd God gave me dangers to overcome;<\/p>\n

I asked for patience.
\nGod placed me in situations where I was forced to wait.<\/p>\n

I asked for love,
\nAnd God gave me people to help;<\/p>\n

I asked for favors,
\nAnd God gave me opportunities.<\/p>\n

I received nothing I wanted;
\nI received everything I needed.<\/p>\n

Prayer is turning control of our lives over to God. Prayer is trusting God. God answers all our prayers! His answers may not always come as quickly as we would like, but they are guaranteed to be the answers we need. We can be thankful God knows the difference between what we want and what we need. Quick does not mean better.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>\"Trust\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Living in a \u201cquick-fix\u201d society, we would all prefer God to instantly, magically fix our dire circumstances. But God is not always in the \u201cquick-fix\u201d game. Prayer is not the easy way out. We don\u2019t look to God to do … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}