Waiting for a prayer to be answered?

Ever wonder why your prayers are not being answered?

I try to spend a little time in my back yard every morning and evening with my Bible, reflecting on how my walk with God is going. It had been 9 weeks since God put the creation of HEsentme.org in my heart. What was going on I asked? I had hit a block wall! It almost seemed like "HEsentme" was dead. Had I made a mistake? Had I heard wrong? Why was NOTHING happening? Why was God silent after all He had put in my heart?

The answer came in the following passage in Daniel 10:10-14

Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees. And the man said to me, "Daniel, you are very precious to God, so listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you." When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling.

Then he said, "Don't be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. But for twenty-one days the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia. Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come."

Until then, I had never remembered reading that an angel had ever been detained while trying to answer a prayer.

A few days later I received word that the installation of our wind turbine had been approved. Finally, an answered prayer! Satan knew that this was important to me and the future of HEsentme.org. He needed to discourage me, make me doubt what I had heard from God. From this discouragement I've learned the importance of what I'm doing.

I'm currently under attack (in ways I probably don't yet understand) and that's one of the reasons I know I'm hearing from God. That I'm doing His will.

So now I've been given a general contractor to do the first installation and we got an incredible price on the wind turbine and we're ready to break ground.

I also have all of my immunizations for my trip to West Africa in February.

All that is left is completing our 501(c)(3) and we're on our way.

I'm sure Satan has few more attacks coming my way but I'm reminded what it says in Philipians 4:13 "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."