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Waiting Is Holy Business: When God Doesn’t Meet Your Timeline

What if God answers a prayer… 25 years after you prayed it?

I’ve been thinking about the invisible deadlines we put on God. We pray. We hope. Maybe we even receive a promise or prophetic word. And without realizing it, we start deciding what the answer should look like—and when it should happen.

Then that window closes.

And we call it disappointment.

This summer, in the middle of real grief for my family, something happened that stopped me in my tracks. I found myself watching a scene I had prayed for as a teenager—one I had long ago stopped expecting to ever see.

It made me wonder: How many…

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