Our Willing and Generous Abba God
“He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”” (Luke 11:5-13 WEB)
Why do we need to be persistent in prayer when God is so willing to give good gifts to us?
God does everything under Heaven according to appointed times and seasons—a system of divine order.
While you are waiting for the time to arrive, He will prepare your heart and mouth to come into alignment with His plans, believing and speaking those things into manifestation.
So we pray persistently not because God is reluctant, but rather we are preparing ourselves for God’s appointed times and seasons.
Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking…until the appointed time of deliverance arrives.
“But I’ve been praying for years and nothing has changed!” This statement shows unbelief. Sometimes people pray one thing and confess another. They declare they believe God has healed them but they complain to others how they are feeling so sick and in pain. The apostle James said that a double-minded man who does not ask in faith cannot expect to receive anything from God.
Is the manifestation not here yet? That means the appointed time has not arrived yet, so keep on praying. Abraham was promised a son, but it was only many years later that the fulfillment happened. I am not saying that your manifestation will take years, but there is a right time that only God knows.
In the meantime while you are waiting, meditate on the passage above and get a sense of how generous Abba God is towards you. He loves you and supplies your good heart’s desires through His Spirit.
If an unwilling friend will reluctantly give you what you keep asking for because of your persistence, then all the more Abba God will exceedingly and abundantly answer your prayer requests. Believe this and wait for the appointed time!
Learn how to flow with God’s system of times and seasons by which He plans every purpose under Heaven. You will experience unceasing fruitfulness and restful increase when you apply the revelations in “God’s Appointed Time”:
https://bit.ly/god-appointed-time
it was not until 在 Re: [請益]until V.S not until - 看板Eng-Class - 批踢踢實業坊 的必吃
UNTIL用於句中：右邊的事情一發生，左邊的事情就相反。
用「直到…才…」，這種無法對稱的翻譯去解釋會很麻煩。
NOT UNTIL只是UNTIL的句子內有否定出現，倒裝而成。
DUNCHEE的意思是只有UNTIL原句左邊句子否定才能做倒裝嗎？
還是？
以例句來說
You cannot go outside/左邊 until you finish your homework./右邊
所以你不准出去除非你寫完作業→一寫完作業，就可以出去。
= Not until you finish your homework can you go outside.
倒裝成此句。
都有否定啊？
我有很認真看了例句還是不太懂XD
※ 引述《philletheia (summer)》之銘言：
: 最近在寫考古題
: 一直對於not until 跟 until的用法及中文翻譯(否定又否定?!)搞不清楚
: 想要請問如果原句為
: until the present century, there was little demand for natural gas.
沒有否定要怎麼倒裝…
: 若要將此句以not until 為句首
: 該怎麼改才是正確的呢?
: 煩請大家解惑!
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