Pastor Ralph Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cct1106 Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? I am ashame to say that I have been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise immediately. Knowing that things happen in their own time just did not get my attention. Being in severe health and pain constantly and wanting it to go away "right now" was only on my mond. But the fact is there's a reason for the suffering and when the last days come and Paradise is here on earth then and only then will my and everyone's suffering will cease to exist. Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? To give each and eveyone of us time to make that ultimate decision and to gain knowledge and truth. If the fulfillment would happen at this moment, there would be alot of people that are not ready to face that time and judgment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peggysue Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 God might have a different plan or will than the one we are thinking of,or might take out a different plan before He gives us things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunilbernard Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Ever since I became His child and started to grow in Him, I have acknowledged the fact that His time and ours are different. I am a cool person by nature and that helped me to give everything to God and let Him do it according to His schedules. So I am not frustrated or impatient with God. He has given me that characteristic in His abounding grace. As said above, His times and our times are not related equally. The Psalmist said that a thousand years in His sight are like an evening gone...We cannot measure God's promises on our time-scale. God has a purpose and time for everything according to the wise king Solomon who said it in Ecclesiastes. We should not hurry God or force Him to act according to our schedules. That means we are not trusting Him fully. When He thinks that the time is ripe, then He will fulfill the promises, according to His schedule. Our part is to wait on Him and be obedient unto Him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 No never Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judvaughn Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 My 8-year-old daughter wants a computer in her room. She has asked repeatedly for it. She sees that some of her friends have one. But, as her father, I believe it would be irresponsible for me to give it to her at this time. Request denied. NO, request delayed. One day, perhaps when she is in high school, I can arrange for her to have one in her room because it will become important to her student work. But she must wait. As her father, I make decisions that I believe are in her best interest. Does she understand? Is she satisfied with my answer? No. But she learns to accept certain decisions that she knows I believe are good for her. And in her heart she knows, whatever my decision as a parent, that I am working for the best outcome for her life. Jud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Have you ever been fustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? I don't know if fustrated is the word. Sometimes angry, sometimes full of doubt if their ever was a plan for me. And I want to see! I want to see why He allowed the police to come and take my grandson from me and give him to the drug addicted former boyfriend of my daughter. I looked out of the window of my apartment screaming in pain as I saw that he and his mother were down there waiting and watched them take him. My daughter left Paul with me to go file a police report and when she came back her son was not there. They have money and power but God has more and He wants them to repent and know Jesus. He is not willing that any should perish. He gave the Amorites four hundred years and they still didn't turn from their evil ways. I think He grieved. He grieved for the lost souls and for the little children. I believe He does what is good and I don't always understand. God Bless Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Spaulding Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Sure, but I've learned that His timing is just right--mine is skewed to please me--not His larger understanding of what needs to be for the good of all. God has reasons that, like with Abraham, we may not see in our lifetime. But, He asks us to trust Him--with our lives, our dreams, and our future. When I cannot understand, I can trust Him! The hardest thing is to wait when it involves someone we love--such as our children. We want it--and we want it right now! Especially when we think of their salvation. I have a daughter who is not saved and I want it now. But, I have learned over many years that God will act in His perfect way when the time comes. It's hard, but with His loving care, He takes us by the hand and leads us through it--as long as we willingly follow where He leads. We can't just bludgeon our way through and expect anything good to come of it. We learn by His leading us through a way in which we cannot see the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Z_Squad Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 3a.) (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? 3a.) Yes. 3b.) (15:16) Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? 3b.) I am drawn to Malachi 3:3: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness," Many have written that God's time is not our time. I agree, but I would like to take it one step further. God is not bound by time. He is eternal. We are finite. The concept of time was created by God for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccs Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? yes!!!! I am a visionary and it's hard for someone like me, with the gift of prophesy to wait on God. . . I give it to Him and if He isn't fast enough I try to take it back. . . but I am learning to count to 10 per say. . . and learning that things work out for the best with LESS FRUSTRATION when it is done our Lord's way. . . It's a real freedom to know I am not the one in control. . . Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Because we are not quite ready for what He has prepared for us. . . sometimes we need a bit more character building in us. . . and unfortunately that comes through testing and trails. But as James 1: 2-8 states, we are to count it all joy. . . I believe this is because we are learning to rely on God like no other time and this is we grow. . . In the valleys. . .Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MannyVelarde Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Frustrated, is not the word I would use - - sometimes I feel weary that things don't come to pass so soon. We all give a request to God and He always answers - with a Yes - No - or wait - - it is our lack of trust in Him to do it that makes us manipulate or "take matters in our own hands" God does not tell us why He delays - - nor does He have to. He is God, we are not. The closer we get to Him, the more we see His fairness and perfect plan in all He does. Deuteronomy tells us "the secret things belong to God." In the end - all the prayers will be answered and the Mystery of God will be finished - - He will be shown that His judgment and ways are just. Right before the trumpets of judgment are sounded incense was added to the prayers of the saints - - and throne to the earth - Revelation 8:3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. 6 And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them. It is awesome to know that He has our best interest in mind and when we don't wait on Him - He is merciful to forgive and redirect us on the correct path - - We just need to fill our days with more of Him, and less of us - as the song goes! Keep looking up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyBeloved Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 I cannot recall a time when I have been frustrated with GOD for not fulfilling His promise to me immediately. There are times when I feel discouraged because my son is so far away from the LORD and the two Aunts who are atheists and get angry with me for speaking to them about the LORD. GOD sometimes delays the fulfillment of His promises to a future time because He is omniscient and He knows the beginning and the end, His ways are best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grace Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 I have not been frustrated with God for not fullfilling His promises immediately, but as the years passed and then not seeing the promise fullfilled, it does bring the question, "Did God really give me a promise". God delays His promise because He knows when best to fullfill the promise and also knows that when the time comes , we will then understand why the promise was not fullfilled earlier. (Maybe this question is appropriate to me at this time, as a promise was made to me Ps. 138:8 about 12 years ago, regarding my son , Monte, and to the best of my understanding, has not been fullfilled to date. I ask the forum to lift me and my family up before the Lord with regard to this promise. May God be glorified in this promise) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelley Walrath Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 I have learned not to question God or think He is punishing me because He doesn't answer my prayers right away or at all. When my husband and I married, we wanted to to have children right away. We went to one infertility clinic to another, one adoption agency to another, and it was not to be - for 10 years. During that time, I thought God was punishing me and that He just didn't want me to have the desire of my heart. I now have 4 beautiful children 2 boys and 2 girls in that order. They came in God's good and perfect timing. They all love each other and we love them. I can see where His hand was in it all along. He is and was Jehovah Roi - the God who Sees and I will never question Him again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Williams Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 I believe we have all been frustrated at one time or another with God for not fulfilling his promise to us. God knows he exact and right time for us when we think we know but we don't. It is all about timing if we get something before time there maybe more harm than good. We need to learn how to wait on the Lord. God sometime delay because we might not be spiritually ready to handle the fulfillment of his promise. Let us have a willing and humble mind o let God direct our path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressThrough Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Q3. (15:16) Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? There has been times in my life where I immediately pointed to God and said "why" or "why not" was something like what I requested done or not done, and then ..... but that never revealed much. I have found that waiting for Gods' responce is always the best way to go, for He know's why He answeres real quick like or makes me wait, and if I do wait, then happy am I that I waited for.....because by the time God brought it around, the whole senerio already changed and what ever it was, wasn't what it was made up to be.....anyway!!! There is not really so much to do in life that anything more than what's already been done, can be done. oh, i'm not saying that people can't get stupider or even smarter about how they do something. It's just all repetition and vanity even if it's a new discovery - there is nothing new about it!!! I'm fed up with having to deal with evil people and their stupidity just because they don't feel like believing God. I'm tierd of the pain people so carelessly through about, oh, just because they didn't make good decisions and got hurt them selves. No, most of it probably wasn't their fault, but what people do with the pain so carelessly inflicted on them, even if someone took great care to inflict them, it is an individual's choice what they do with it there after. There is nothing left for me to do. Jesus said "It is Finnished", so I wait for the grande finale. And why I wait, God gave me His Word for to hold on to, to know Him, to have Peace - His Peace while we wait for reentry into The Temple Of God. I must have had much confidence in Heaven, before I was born in the flesh, to tell God that I could do this and will make a difference. I didn't realize the evil potential of the mind, or even of those with me up there. But God knew and is weeding out the space in Heaven so that we don't have to be surprised by such evil people. I see one hand holding on for dear life to the ankle of God as He said, "okay you can go", and I realized that I would be here without His protection, and decided I didn't want to come. But God said Go!!! Make a difference, You can do it!!! And so I am here. Where are you? p.s. I didn't mean to imply that God doesn't protect me. He does!!! I just wish He didn't have to!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherdills Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 I have been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to me immediately. God sometimes delays the fulfillment of his promises to a future time because He knows the perfect time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda bass Posted October 10, 2004 Report Share Posted October 10, 2004 I admit I have become frustrated with God for not fulfilling a promise right a way. I hate waiting for something. However, I know that God will delay the fulfillment of a promise because He is waiting for just the right time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
June Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 YES, I'M SORRY TO SAY THAT I HAVE. FOR HEALING, BUT I WOULD SOON LEARN THAT IT WAS HIS PERFECT TIMING, NOT MINE. WHEN WE ARE OBEDIENT HE IS QUICK TO ANSWER IN HIS OWN TIME. WE JUST NEED TO LET GOD BE GOD. WHEN THE PROMISE IS DELAYED, WE PROBABLY ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THE FULFILLMENT AT THAT TIME. GOD WANTS THE PRAISE AND GLORY AND SOMETIMES OUR HEARTS ARE NOT IN RIGHT ACCORD WITH THE WORD. WE NEED TO REPENT OF SOMETHING AND CLEAR THE AIR. OUR GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR US AND CAN SEE FAR BEYOND INTO THE FUTURE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWooley Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Yes, for years I wanted to be married and it was just not happening. The Lord gave me this verse in Isaiah 43:18-19. "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." I want to encourage everyone who is waiting for God's promises. Try to hold on and He will fulfill all His promises to you and more than you could even ask or imagine. I'm going to try to find a verse that I am reminded of that reads something like that but I can't find it right now. Does anyone know the reference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggie Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Yes I have, even knowing that God's timing, not mine, is perfect. Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? So that things will work to His glory and my benefit in the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helenmm Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 Yes, I have experienced frustration, especially when it comes to healing. God sees a bigger picture than we do. He took three weeks to get to Daniel because of other wars in the Heavenlies. In this case He was completing other plans (re the Amorites) along with His plans for the Israelites. The plans had to be coordinated. Paul asked three times for healing for his illness and was refused because there had to be something to keep him dependent on God, otherwise his ego would possibly have got the better of him. (And how often God leaves just a trace of the original disease to remind the recipient of healing what he was healed from). Also, in Nazareth, Jesus was unable to heal many because of their lack of faith. However, nothing is impossible with God, therefore we should persist with our requests when they are within God's will. He certainly hears our prayers, unless they are blocked by sin or unforgiveness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim E. Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 I don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chobson Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Q3= YES I HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED AT TIMES WHEN IT SEEMED GOD WAS SLOW IN FULFILLING A PROMISE TO ME BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT GOD'S TIME IS PERFECT. HE WAITS UNTIL EVERY T IS CROSSED AND I IS DOTTED SO THAT EACH PIECE OF HIS PLAN FITS TOGETHER PERFECTLY. JUST THE SMALLEST THING OUT OF ORDER AND IT WOULD NOT BE A TRULY FULFILLED PROMISE. IT WOULD NOT HAVE IT'S COMPLETNESS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Fisher Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Have you ever been frustrated with God for not fulfilling his promise to you immediately? Yes I have been frustrated when I haven't gotten what I asked for immediately. Why does God sometimes delay the fulfillment of his promises to a future time? Because God knows the perfect time for everything to be done, according to His will, to glorify His kingdom. He isn't limited in His thinking, as we are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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