I want everything according to my plan, my will. I want the answers right now, at the exact moment I need them. I want you to bend to my desires, my hopes. But time after time I\u2019m reminded that life doesn\u2019t work that way. And I\u2019m so sorry for thinking that I can tell you how to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, what I need more than ever is a patient heart. A heart that serves you, not asks you to serve me. A heart that knows you love me and, yet, is filled with peace, knowing that you hear my voice and that you care, even if you aren\u2019t answering my prayers in the way I wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, please give me the ability to wait, to trust, to seek you, even when it feels like you don\u2019t care. Help me to know that in time, you will make all things good and according to your will. And please show me that your desires for my life are far greater than the ones I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Waiting can feel like a spiritual test you didn\u2019t sign up for\u2014especially when you\u2019re doing your best and nothing is moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52923609,"featured_media":1173239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603229949],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[313988948],"class_list":["post-1173237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/praying.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52923609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173240,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173237\/revisions\/1173240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173237"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1173237"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1173237"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1173237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1173237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Rebecca_-Simon_Christian_Devotionals_Books-8-edited.png\")
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