Many times that you are on hold because

Many times that you are on hold is to make you more like Jesus. Many times you are on hold is because God is purifying your motives. Sometimes you are put on hold because God wants to check the motives of why you ask. “You ask, and receive not, because you ask for what you may lust” “When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4:3). Many times you are on hold because God is focusing your faith because you lose your focus. It may be because of fear, impatience or doubts.

Here is how to focus your faith. “But ask in faith, nothing wavering. For if you Doubt you’re like the wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For don’t think that you shall receive anything from the LORD” (James 1:6, 7).

You may be on hold because God may be dealing with unconfessed sin.
Sometimes when you do not hear from God it is because of sin in your life. “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated you  and God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1,2).

You may be on hold because of spiritual warfare. Sometimes when God does not answer your requests, it is because there is satanic opposition. Daniel prayed for an answer from God but didn’t get it for twenty-one days. (Daniel 9:3) Daniel did not get an answer for three weeks until Michael the Archangel came to him. “Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to correct yourself before God, your words were heard, and I am came for thy words, but the enemy withstood me for twenty one days.

Are you willing to face the often not-so-good truth about your life and jump dramatically out into what seems like nothing, with faith that you will land in the arms of God. Begin to understand every day is another chance to experience His mysteries and wonders. Stop searching so hard for answers, and learn to find God in your questions. Questions are mystery, and mystery is where God dwells. Ask God to give you His mind so that you can join him, learning to think the way He thinks and feel the way He feels.