How do you respond when God doesn't come through?

[StarryEyes]

God comes through. God always comes through! He doesn't operate on our time table. Or by our standards.

In Isaiah it says:
7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God's ways are always better than our ways, even if we may not "see" it or understand it at the time. That's where faith and trust come in.. you may not have a clue what God is doing or why He's allowing certain things to happen in your life, or why He isn't allowing certain things to happen.. but that doesn't at all mean God isn't trustworthy. He knows what He's doing.

Sometimes it can be frustrating when we hope for something to go one way and it just doesn't go that way.. but God has great plans! (Jeremiah 29:11) Hang in there

Oh and on a more personal note, when I was really sick for so long.. I didn't understand why I was going through all that! And I felt alone and abandoned.. but now that God is healing me, I look back at all the lessons God taught me while I was sick! And I can see now that He was with me every step of the way.. there was never a moment when God wasn't there! It felt like everything was swirling out of control, but God had everything in complete control! So even though you may not understand it now.. one day down the road God may reveal more to you.

 

[yam]

God knows what is best for you. Maybe what you are not prepare for what you are asking him or He wants something better for you. you have to trust God and wait for his appointed time. It took me a while to learn this. God has three answers fo our paryers. They are NO, Yes and wait.

 

[mustang333]

I happened to read this scripture last week. "Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain,'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you" Mark 11:23. Hang in there, we must take Jesus for his word!

 

[Stravinsk]

Background: Over the past number of years, I have been on a journey of sort of learning to trust God with my future. Specifically, I gave God two very specific goals/requests/dreams that I wanted to see come to pass in my life and committed to trust God in these, not having the slightest idea of how it might unfold.

Over the years, I prayed, worked, prayed, believed, prayed and trusted to the best of my ability. For whatever reasons, the things I sought did not come to pass in my life and there is no changing what has happened. At this point in my life, I am completely devastated beyond what words can express. It feels like life is no longer worth living.

I am certain that I am not the only one who has ever experienced this sort of thing and am wondering how you dealt with or are dealing with it.

Depends alot on what it is. If Jesus specifically promised it, and practiced it, and said it would, for example, be something that accompanied believers - then if it *doesn't*, I'd start questioning 1) myself and 2) my faith or particular beliefs.

There is no way I would hold now some of the beliefs I do had things I (and others) specifically prayed for not come to pass. Important things - life and death issues. This is a reason I am estranged from most of Christian churches. I believe most of the churches (not Jesus) teach lies on certain important issues. Some of these lies are even woven into most English translations of the bible.

Otherwise, unless it is something that Christ taught by word and example specifically, then it may fall into this category:

YLT James 4:3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
KJV James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.​

 

[Sunset2009]

Background: Over the past number of years, I have been on a journey of sort of learning to trust God with my future. Specifically, I gave God two very specific goals/requests/dreams that I wanted to see come to pass in my life and committed to trust God in these, not having the slightest idea of how it might unfold.

Over the years, I prayed, worked, prayed, believed, prayed and trusted to the best of my ability. For whatever reasons, the things I sought did not come to pass in my life and there is no changing what has happened. At this point in my life, I am completely devastated beyond what words can express. It feels like life is no longer worth living.

I am certain that I am not the only one who has ever experienced this sort of thing and am wondering how you dealt with or are dealing with it.

Blind post.

I was nearly offended by the title of this thread. For the record, God ALWAYS comes through. Things may not work out the way WE want them to, but that's OK. That's a good thing. Because He knows what is WAY better for us. Thank God that He doesn't always let what WE want, to happen!

I'm not going to ask God to do something (or "let" something happen) for me that's not in His will, something He doesn't want me doing, and then basically call Him a failure when it doesn't happen.

If someone REALLY trusted in Him, the mentality wouldn't be "God didn't come through." It would be "Thank God He has other, better plans for my life!"

 

[Thunder Peel]

I understand where you're coming from because I've been in that boat plenty of times before. However, one thing I have learned is that being mad at God and getting upset about it only prolongs the process and is counterproductive to what God's trying to do in your life. I've prayed and worked hard for many things that I hoped would come to pass but they didn't. I ended up angry with God and the result was one of a stagnant spiritual life and general unhappiness because I was focused on my own desires and not God's. Trust me, I know it's tough.

Over the past month I've gone through something very similar and God used that time to teach me to trust Him. I had never really done that before so I gave it a try: I prayed, kept in His Word daily and surrendered everything to Him. It was very tough but God kept teaching me through the process and just this morning I got some great news after a rough month of uncertainty, disappointment, and confusion. Things didn't go exactly the way I planned but God was faithful and I'm excited about the results.

I'm not saying this to try to act like some super-Christian, because I'm certainly not. I finally learned what it means to fully trust God and praise Him through the storm. I'm not saying that He's a genie who will give you anything you want for trusting Him but He will move sooner or later and you'll understand why you had to cross the desert first. It's very tough and not always easy but it's a lesson that will serve you well and show God that you're willing to be faithful and content no matter what happens. I'm praying for you and I hope that you're able to give God the benefit of the doubt. He knows what He's doing, even if we can't see it.