SUMMARY

1. There are some things which God will only give us in answer to prayer, but he waits first until we are ready to make the best use of them.  That is why he often delays answering our prayers even when we are praying for what he wants us to have.

2. He gives us things in order to bring us closer to himself or so that we can do some good with them.

References

1. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2000) Common Worship.  Contemporary language.  Collects and Post Communions for the seasons.  Trinity and Ordinary Time: Tenth Sunday after Trinity.  Available from:

http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/collects/contemp/postwhit.html  (Accessed 17 August 2010) (Internet).

2. Augustine of Hippo (c 400 AD) The Confessions, Book V, Chapter 8 (15).  Available from: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110105.htm  (Accessed 17 August 2010) (Internet).