He DOES answer our prayers

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A friend of mine lost her driver's license this week and has to fly out this weekend for a cross-country trip. Someone asked her if she'd prayed for help in finding it, and although she's a very faithful person, she exclaimed, "He doesn't answer those kind of prayers for me! It never works!" So she headed to the court house to get a birth certificate so she could get a new drivers license.

It turns out her license was expired and she didn't know it until she showed up at the DMV. So had she not lost it, she would have tried boarding the plane only to be turned away due to an expired license! I pointed this out to her and she said, "He does answer them, I guess!"

This reminds me of the time I lost my student ID card when I lived in the dorms. I needed it to eat at the dining all and searched everywhere for it, praying all the while that I would find it. I ended up missing the dinner hour and was quite frustrated. In a last ditch attempt, I traced my steps back out to my car, where I found my keys and ID card holder lying in the snow next to my car. I shouted (in my head) thanks to the Lord for helping me find them.

But when I picked them up, I realized they were too thick to be mine. They were my roommates and she kept not only her ID card, but her credit cards and cash with them too. As soon as I found her card I knew the Lord had hidden my keys from me so I could find hers. I went back inside and immediately found my card where I had already looked.

I try to remember this when I feel like a prayer isn't being answered, or isn't being answered in the way I want it to. I was so frustrated last year that I couldn't find a job so Kevin and I could live near each other. After a few months I eventually found one and it has turned out to be the perfect job. I am so thankful for the months of waiting so that long-term I could be happier.