What's coming now

Angel: Why do some of her prayers take years to answer?

God: Because some prayers require years of preparation.

Angel: What do you mean?

God: What she's praying for now requires a version of her that doesn't

exist yet. If I answered the prayer today, she wouldn't be able to sustain

it. The answer would become its own problem. So I'm using the time to

build her into who she needs to be to receive it.

Angel: That seems hard on her.

God: I know. The waiting feels like punishment. Like I'm withholding

from her. Like I've forgotten. But every year of delay is a year of

development. Every season of waiting is a season of becoming.

Angel: What's being built in her?

God: Discernment, so she'll recognize what's right when it arrives.

Strength, so she can hold what I'm bringing without breaking under the

weight of it. Wisdom, so she'll know how to steward the answer instead

of squandering it. Patience, so she'll trust me with the next thing she has

to wait for.

Angel: When the answer comes...

God: When the answer comes, she'll understand. She'll see why I waited.

She'll see who she had to become. She'll thank me for not answering the

prayer when she first prayed it. Because what she would've received then

is nothing compared to what's coming now.

~jacqueline whitney