{"id":11853,"date":"2025-01-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2025-01-06T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:24:24","slug":"god-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/god-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"God Hears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gray-and-White-Natural-Winter-Illustrative-Let-It-Snow-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gray-and-White-Natural-Winter-Illustrative-Let-It-Snow-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gray-and-White-Natural-Winter-Illustrative-Let-It-Snow-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gray-and-White-Natural-Winter-Illustrative-Let-It-Snow-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel, praying for Israel\u2019s future, doesn\u2019t receive an immediate answer, refusing to do anything until he knows God\u2019s plan. However, the Lord responded quickly, but evil&#8217;s powers hindered God\u2019s messenger from delivering the reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Devil\u2019s minions can try to obstruct the Lord\u2019s angels, but they can\u2019t stop them. We may have to wait longer for the answer, but God\u2019s will does prevail. The Creator\u2019s messengers have no problem defeating the enemy\u2019s ploys, but it does require a battle. Nothing the Devil does can stop the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first read today\u2019s passage, it baffled me. Learning about the delay in God\u2019s response gave me new insight into answered prayers. Sometimes, we get a delayed response for various reasons, but the Lord does respond to every petition. Like Daniel, we must wait until we hear from our Savior before we make a move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever answer you await, know God will answer. In His time and way, the Lord responds to all our pleas. We may not like the reply, but it will come. Nothing defeats God\u2019s will. Knowing the past, present, and future, the Creator\u2019s story unfolds despite the enemy\u2019s plans to thwart it. In time, like Daniel, we\u2019ll understand the whole story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<br>Thank You for including us in Your story. Please help us wait well for Your responses to our prayers. Let us honor and serve You wholeheartedly as we participate in Your plan for our lives.<br>IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Daniel, praying for Israel\u2019s future, doesn\u2019t receive an immediate answer, refusing to do anything until he knows God\u2019s plan. However, the Lord responded quickly, but evil&#8217;s powers hindered God\u2019s messenger from delivering the reply. The Devil\u2019s minions can try to obstruct the Lord\u2019s angels, but they can\u2019t stop them. We may have to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/god-hears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God Hears<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}