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Waiting for An Answer

I've been reading and learning a lot about prayer lately.  Part of the reason is that I'm writing a novel, and the main theme's prayer is powerful, so I've been looking up verses.  Writing it has really helped me in praying. I have a book called, Please Give Me Another Chance, Lord by Lorraine Peterson.  I suggest you look it up.  It's for teenagers, or anyone, who is learning how to pray. One of the chapters in the book is called "What If You Asked God 1,487 Times, and There's No Answer?"  That's the hardest part of praying- waiting for an answer. A cartoon in the chapter shows two girls walking by a church sign that reads, "pray every day."  One of the girls tells the other, "I'm not talking to God again until He gives me the TV I asked for nine months ago!"  This is exactly what a lot of people go through.  They ask for something, but when they don't receive it right away, they make a "deal" with