Why God’s ‘No’ Might Be the Best Answer

When I was growing up, I thought prayer worked like a cosmic vending machine. Put in enough faith, press the right buttons and out pops the blessing. Need a new job? Pray. Hoping for a relationship to work out? Pray. Facing something scary? Pray harder. Somewhere along the way, I believed that if I prayed the right way, God’s answer would always be “yes.”Of course, that’s not how God works. And thank God for that. Because if He said yes to everything I begged Him for, I’d probably be in situatio