November 10, 2013 – Judith 8

You cannot put God on your timetable and he may not answer your prayers the way you want.  Notice at the very end that what the elders ask for isn’t deliverance from the enemy.  Their faith in God is still not strong enough to ask for that.  They ask for rain so that they can hold out longer.  But Judith says that God will deliver them through her.  What a powerful speech she gives here.  It should be read by anyone that is frustrated with God for not answering their prayers or delaying what they want.  Judith lays it all out, that you cannot limit God to your conditions.  God will do what is best for us and we must wait for Him.  You can pray, you can ask, and He wants you to, but you cannot limit God with your conditions.  When you do, you show your lack of faith, and God will do what was going to happen anyway.  I wonder how often we pray and add our conditions without even thinking about it.  Do we make such a habit of it that we don’t recognize what we are doing?  Try to think about that the next time you pray.  Are you praying to God and giving Him your timetable, your checklist, your criteria, or are you asking Him to do it His way and asking for help to accept His way?