Have you not once found yourself in this position as a believer, a situation where answers to your prayers takes you by a surprise, you become a temporary unbeliever for some moment? You know why?
It is either the believers did not expect God to answer their prayers so quick or instantly or that they had told God how they wanted the prayer to be answered.
Acts 12:1-15
About that time King Herod moved against some of the believers
2 and killed the apostle James (John's brother).
3 When Herod saw how much this pleased the Jewish leaders, he arrested Peter during the Passover celebration
4 and imprisoned him, placing him under the guard of sixteen soldiers. Herod's intention was to deliver Peter to the Jews for execution after the Passover.
5 But earnest prayer was going up to God from the church for his safety all the time he was in prison.
6 The night before he was to be executed, he was asleep, double-chained between two soldiers with others standing guard before the prison gate,
7 when suddenly there was a light in the cell and an angel of the Lord stood beside Peter! The angel slapped him on the side to awaken him and said, "Quick! Get up!" And the chains fell off his wrists!
8 Then the angel told him, "Get dressed and put on your shoes." And he did. "Now put on your coat and follow me!" the angel ordered.
9 So Peter left the cell, following the angel. But all the time he thought it was a dream or vision and didn't believe it was really happening.
10 They passed the first and second cell blocks and came to the iron gate to the street, and this opened to them of its own accord! So they passed through and walked along together for a block, and then the angel left him.
11 Peter finally realized what had happened! "It's really true!" he said to himself. "The Lord has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and from what the Jews were hoping to do to me!"
12 After a little thought he went to the home of Mary, mother of John Mark, where many were gathered for a prayer meeting.
13 He knocked at the door in the gate, and a girl named Rhoda came to open it.
14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she ran back inside to tell everyone that Peter was standing outside in the street.
15 They didn't believe her. "You're out of your mind," they said. When she insisted they decided, "It must be his angel. They must have killed him."
Whatever was the case, Rhoda demonstrated more faith and sensitivity than others. She was actually expecting Peter to show up as she partook of the prayer meeting and in the evening, Peter was released.
Most times when we pray, we give God strategies and instrument to use and if God comes through us some other way, we will still be praying and fasting, expecting God to use our strategies.
God's timing and approach is different from ours always. As young as we are in God's hand, nothing stops us from being sensitive to God's answers and strongly believe that He had done it.
God's way of doing things is totally different from the way we do things, He is the omnipotent God.
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