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Please reread my post. I did answer your questions..but maybe not in the way you'd have liked? The way you phrased your post...certainly appeared as though you were questioning my relationship with the Lord...as well as my prayer life, No?

As far as the reference to iron sharpening iron, the correct passage reads: "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

Were you being my "friend" by lifting me up and encouraging me in the Lord... or looking for a way to tear me apart...doctrinally speaking, that is?

Scripture says we are to wait on the Lord, and only move forward when he tells us to.

Reference please? "Wait" also means to "Trust" or "Hope". What is the context and scripture you are referring to?

I need to check if the "desire in my heart" is God's or mine. Scripture says the heart is deceitful above all things.

I ask the Lord to search my heart and show me what displeases Him...so that I can remove it, repent of it.. or work through it.. with the help of His Holy Spirit.

Sometimes God says no because what we ask is not His will or plan. The danger in only believe affirmative answers are "signs" is that we can miss God or fail to glorify Him for His plans

Please reread my post and show me where you think I implied I adhered to this belief system with anything that I stated...k?

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11

And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

Ummmm.....I think you posted the wrong scripture?

Anyway...this is exactly why I use a prayer journal. I go back to see in "retrospect" what prayers have been answered. Alot.....or should I say MOST are answered in ways I'm not always looking for...or expect them to be answered. They are still answered....nonetheless and He still gets ALL the Glory. It gives me great pleasure to use that journal to praise Him with... to honor Him for all the things He's done in my life.

Let's get back to topic now...shall we?

I go back to see in "retrospect" what prayers have been answered. Alot.....or should I say MOST are answered in ways I'm not always looking for...or expect them to be answered. They are still answered....nonetheless and He still gets ALL the Glory

I don't keep a journal; perhaps I should. I think it's too easy to "forget" when we are in the midst of sadness or trouble that God answers prayers (this reminds me of Job, complaining that God must not love him because He let all these bad things happen, etc.) and Satan loves it when we're down, casting into our minds doubts and dispersions of ourselves and of God's love (that He couldn't possibly love us because of the sin we just committed, etc.).

Anyways, yes, that's also true how God answers our prayers so often in ways we could never have predicted, in ways we never thought possible (much less thought of).

Psalm 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Sometimes wait means wait..

Psalm 25:1<[A Psalm] of David.> Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

:5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Psalms 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Online Bibles: Verse Lookup Jeremiah - King James (Authorized) Version

29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jeremiah 29

11 "For I know the <*1> plans that I [1] have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for <*2> welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a <*3> hope.

Jeremiah 29:11 :: King James Version (KJV)

Jeremiah 29

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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