Have you ever prayed hard for something and got nothing? It can be disheartening when are passionate cries for physical or spiritual healing seem to end with continued brokenness. It can feel vain to continue asking when calls directed to heaven are seemingly returned to earth with the sound of silence.

Our faith can be deeply challenged when we desperately call for the winds of change, believe God for it, and yet find our sails hanging limp. What do we do when we believe God for the shifting of the mountain and find it where we left it? What do we do when we ask but God doesn't move?

Some walk away. "If He can and He didn't He is not kind. If He's kind and He couldn't then He's not able," they reason.

Some turn to shame. "I must not have prayed right, believed well or maybe I am no longer loved by God at all," they fear.

Some turn to God. "He is sovereign over life and death. His vantage point is not limited by time or space. And while I want my prayer answered the way I prayed it, I want Him more than I want anything. I admit God is far too infinite for my finite mind to intellectually master His. I trust that He is ultimately working all things for our good and His glory, even when it appears He hasn't moved.”

May we trust God, when we call out to Him for a way forward and the seas part before our feet, and may we hold fast to His unchanging power and perfect nature when we ask and God Doesn't Move.

"So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, he stayed where he was for the next two days." John 11:5-6

"When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.” John 11:32

"And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." Romans 8:27-28

- Micah McElveen