Being prepared

There may have been times in our lives when we desperately wanted something, but God did not answer our prayers as we expected. This could have either made us bitter or helped us learn to accept delays in our prayer life. When the angel of God presented himself before Zacharias with the good news that he was going to have a child, he did not believe it. Though Zacharias had lived a blameless life before God, when his faith was tested he found it hard to believe that his aging wife was to conceive. We have to be always prepared for we don't know when and how God will answer our prayers.

Luke 1:5-7

5THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

7And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.