The slower your prayers are answered

The slower our prayers are answered, the more often Satan comes to us, offering deceptive shortcuts that continue to deceive us.  Then we have to choose between the two:

1. We continue to pray, expect and wait for God in faith with a heart of trust in God, so that prayers will be answered in God's time, or
2. We choose to take the shortcut Satan shows us to quickly get what we want rather than praying and waiting for what we so desperately want (however, the consequence of this choice could be unimaginably painful not only for us but for our descendants as well).

The slower our prayers are answered, the more God will build our faith.  And when we receive our prayers answered in God's time, we will see God's hand (presence) more surely and clearly.

(As I was reading Iain M. Duguid’s "LIVING IN THE GRIP OF RELENTLESS GRACE")