Now, if you ever prayed to God for a breakthrough or for change or for some supernatural miracle or sign and waited listlessly without seeing or experience that which you prayed to God with all your heart and soul in the name of Jesus; then you know what it feels like to be stood up. Better yet, you know how not to put your faith in God. I mean, just think about it, ever since that last unfulfilling experience, you slowly and steadily put less into your prayers. They became long winded filler statements in the likeness of a college essay about Transcendentalism in the 19th century. Very frankly, only a handful of us even pray with the fire and earnestness of a child wishing upon a shooting star. We’ve all been let down too many times to even hope. We’ve lived too long in this life and know better. So while we pray with a grain of salt, knowing that there is a God who loves us out there; we don’t put any stock into His activities in our lives because we hardly experience it. You and I both know this is the reason we don’t sit down and pray for any length of time about specific things; and also why when we do pray, it’s in sweeping generalities. However, God tells us that our prayers are not unheard, we’re just unable to fathom what God is doing in our lives as a result of our prayers.

Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. – Habakkuk 1:5 Habakkuk had been praying to God about all the injustice in his country and specifically asked God to fix it because Israel is God’s chosen nation. We know Habakkuk prayed his heart out and he didn’t get any answers. He didn’t get what he expected in terms of answers anyways. We don’t know how long Habakkuk had been praying about injustice except that it was long enough for him to throw in the towel, but God replied to Habakkuk’s prayers in full. God just did an unbelievable work to fix a problem– that is me saying that the strategy was unorthodox at the very least. Some of us have been praying really hard for some type of change. We have been asking God for something to be fixed or healed. We have been patiently waiting for our God to show us, to lead the way, to give us redemption. But perhaps it’s time for us to expect the unexpected. It is time for us to pay attention to the things around us because God is working in an unorthodox way. He is bringing you answers to your prayers in ways you never expected and in ways that can’t be realized until you pay attention to them. Honestly, God has been doing this all our lives and it’s time for us to realize it. He is doing unbelievable work and I mean that literally, we need to understand that God’s working is unbelievable. Then and only then will we be able to find comfort in the God who answered and is answering all our wildly impossible prayers. It’s unbelievable work– look for God’s unbelievable.