Unanswered Prayer

Sometimes The Answer is NO

It is interesting I was even reminded of this as I do have a post called Prayer and the word *If* with a link at bottom of that post, from a mystery writer I might add, that I went ahead and published that I didn't write on the topic,  I was surprised the Lord reminded me of this happening and that title Sometimes the answer is NO was my response to a friend that was complaining about unanswered prayer. Age and years walked make a difference though. I was 26 I believe at the time not in the word for myself really at that time either but growth at the time came from still my parents and my upbringing. I was raised with meal prayers and bedtime prayer from childhood but was schooled in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and for myself there thru 9th grade. Trinity, Bethlehem, and Holy Cross. That education included Bible study and scriptures to memorize such as the Lords Prayer, Psalm 23 and the Apostles Creed. So in my twenties I would still pray my bedtime prayer, and if I added or did something different it would be the Lords Prayer and sometimes Psalms 23 as I stopped going to church once married then moving to another state. Yet to even get married in the Church we had to be interviewed, the Pastor making sure as I look back that we agreed in religion and politics.

I did of course start my children with the same 2 prayers. It was many many years later the Lord showed me Numbers 30 regarding my bedtime soul prayer. I was walking and hearing then but I did it on my own with Him and most of these new Bibles have removed the word soul. I use the KJV it is the only Bible authorized by a king and the only one that comes with a concordance of the Hebrew and Greek words I would we led to look up meanings to. The Bible used by the Lutheran Church was the Revised Standard Bible, yet I moved to the one with a concordance as I didn't like other interpretations as to what I was reading. I looked for my bedtime prayer and it was removed from the internet with new versions of it just like they did with the Bibles. The bedtime prayer has been changed online but this was the prayer I was taught and taught my children and they taught their children.

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

if I should die before I wake

I pray the Lord my soul to take

(this was followed by saying God Bless then naming each member of the family)

One of the things I miss most about going to the Lutheran Church I went to and I don't know if this is still done today but the Blessing commanded by the Lord to pronounce over the people that was done at the end of each service...I really miss it and did find a music that had it but in the wrong place they had it at the beginning, ours was at the end of things. The Blessing pronounced was:

Nu 6:24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

Nu 6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

Nu 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

With posting these verses, verse 27 I didn't know and awakened to it to me and it was like wow I didn't know that meaning I didn't think about being done for this reason before::

.Numbers 6:27 (KJV) And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them

Back to the main topic, I just wanted you to know where I was in the Lord at the time so you had an understanding. Well that friend brought that back up to me and she was maybe in her 50's at the time asking me if I remembered saying that to her, haha, I said yes I remembered, she said she has never forgotten it. To bad I didn't know at the time what I do now is all I can say but some of us continue to grow if we ourselves remain in Christ and His words, going to Church once a week doesn't cut it.