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."

How YOU can help...

Some of you know that I will be in the West African country of Mali from February 6th to the 15th.

Most of you don’t know that I've also launched a non profit organization called HEsentme.org, Inc.

You’ll see by our mission statement (when you visit the site) that we are providing electricity via wind turbine technology to villages in third world countries.

All of our business documents have been created and approved. The only thing left is filing our 501(c)(3) which will make the corporation exempt from taxes and allow us to accept charitable donations.

This is how you can help:

The IRS and large corporations offering grant money will be gathering information from our website. It would help us out a lot if you would take a few minutes to visit the site (hesentme.org), “sign our guest book” and write a few words of support. ALSO, please forward this email to anyone you know that may be interested in helping.

You may be saying at this point that “you don't know what you’re doing”. Well, you're correct, I don't.

God has given me a vision to do more with my life than producing media for Walt Disney Imagineering.

I don’t know where this is taking us because the big picture has not been revealed to me yet. Since June of 2008, I have been hearing “gentle whispers” of what the next step is and that’s what I’m doing, taking it one small step at a time...

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper... 1 Kings 19:11-12

Thank you all for helping me and being a part of this great adventure.