How We Are Helped When We Pray - (4333)

Often times when we pray we get obstacles, difficulties and problems. Things seem to get worse.

Why? Because through those obstacles, difficulties and problems is the help from God. God's help is not only one sided - i.e. the good side, magically solving everything for us, it is also making things worse and helping us to solve, repair and surmount the circumstances that have gotten worse.

Here are some examples:

When we pray for strength we get difficulties that we can only go through them by being strong.

When we pray for wisdom we get problems that we can only solve by being wise.

When we pray for success we get opportunities to work hard for and in.

When we pray for courage we get obstacles that we can only surpass by holding courageously and resolutely to our values.

When we pray for love we get people coming to us with problems to help them to solve.

When we pray for favours we get situations where we can only make them work by giving and being flexible.

We often don't get anything that we ask for but exactly what we need.

End (4333).