The best answers to prayer are those we have to wait and trust
for. If we are answered quickly, let us be thankful; but let
us be assured that by-and-by God will change His method with
us, and that we shall be often made to wait.
"I will cry unto God... that performeth all things for me" (Psalm
62:2). Every such prayer must be answered; but we must wait God's
time and way. The finest fruit of the Spirit ripens the latest;
the longer we have to wait for answers to our prayers, the richer
the blessing we are blessed while we continue to pray; faith
grows by waiting; the blessing is full when it comes, and the
time of the answer is seen to be the right time.
Asking of God what is most precious in His sight, we surely obtain
all inferior good. Thus did Solomon. (1 Kings 3:6-14.) All mercies
are bound up with God's gift of Christ.
It is not good for us to obtain deliverance and gifts from God,
until we fully justify Him in His way of dealing with us. (Psalm
22) The answer to prayer will sometimes come when our patience
is spent. "Let patience have her perfect work" (James 1:4), that
such rebukes of God's love may not be needful.
Many of God's people pray without waiting for God to work in
His own time and manner. Let us not quiet conscience by praying,
and then, in fleshly haste, take our own way.
The way wherein it pleases God to answer our prayer, if we have
a right mind, will always please us well.