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JESSIE-JESS this a very good reminder that GOD'S TIME is always right dgrimm60

((Sometimes it seems that way for me, too...but I regard these e-mail devotionals that I get as e-mails from God, and this is one that I received a couple days ago and just read today. I thought I would share it with you all, in case you are discouraged or feel tempted to be discouraged in the future.)) Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,” I am sure that everybody who believes in the Lord shares a common problem: we seldom get answers to prayer as fast as we want them. Some get tired waiting and give up their faith. Habakkuk, in chapter 2, verse 3, encourages us not to give up: "The vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." That word "tarry" in the Hebrew is two words. The Good News Bible has the idea: "The time is coming quickly, and what I show you will come true. It may seem slow in coming, but wait for it; it will certainly take place, and it will not be delayed." The idea is not that God is slow, or that He has to be waked up. He's very quick--so much so that Isaiah says He answers our prayers before we pray them ("before they call, I will answer," 65:24), but the answer seems slow to us. One reason is that there are hindrances to His answer getting through to us, as Daniel describes in 10:12, 13 when the angel tells him, "From the first day that you set your heart to understand, ... your words were heard, ... But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days." It could well be that the Lord has already sent the answer to your prayer, but some similar hindrance has occurred. In the meantime, it's your job to believe in the Lord, to appreciate His character, to know that He is your Friend, not your Enemy. So David says over and over, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7). Wouldn't you be embarrassed if you became impatient like King Saul when he was waiting for the prophet Samuel to come and he went ahead in his impatience and did what he should not have done? (1 Sam. 13). Habakkuk is telling us, "Don't get impatient; hang on. The Lord will not truly delay. It would be a pity if when His answer does come, you in the meantime have given up so you can't receive the blessing, and then like King Saul you lose everything!" --Robert J. Wieland From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 10, 1998. Copyright © 2017 by "Dial Daily Bread." e-mail: dailybread@1888message.org to receive these e-devotionals

The following is taken from an Internet article on the Adventist Today website and written by S. M. Chen:

All the more reason to trust in a loving Creator. One day all that will be in the past. God is Love!~Jesus saves! The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. Clarence Darrow Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/clarenceda393302.html The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. Clarence Darrow Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/clarenceda393302.html The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. Clarence Darrow Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/clarenceda393302.htm

This causes me to erupt in chuckles. Oh the irony.... and by Darrow I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/clarenceda107296.html

That's a really fascinating bible verse. It implys a general fulfillment of every heart's wish. There's the effort of action on our part. An action that is motivated by faith in the ability of one fulfilling that which is asked for. That verse just drips with authorized promises.

Best to sit down and take time to read the book of Esther once more. That'll set the mood and imagination for better understanding.

No, but He did say, "go and sin no more." (John 8:11, KJV) Christ died to give you victory over that sin. "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." Acts 3:26, KJV "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." -Romans 6:6 To everyone else: We're all sinners for whom Christ has died. We should be working out our own salvation with fear and trembling (it's in the Bible) and also working together to help each other grow in Christ.

In summary, 0% chance of any of the above. I hope this isn't a trick question.