UGW #19-21: Praying wrong, missing the path, called to where I don't want to go
Understanding God's Will 19 - 21 (no Calvinism stuff added to this post): #19. What if what I’m praying for is not God’s Will or plan for me? What do I do? Like the Israelites begging for and getting meat ( Numbers 11 ), could I end up getting what I ask for as sort of a punishment? I wondered about this one, too. If I was asking and asking for something that God didn’t want to give me, would He end up giving it to me because I begged so much, but then there would be a punishment attached to it? That’s how I felt as I pleaded with God for a house. Would He give us a bad house just to shut me up, as punishment for begging too much, for not "trusting" Him enough and not being happy with what I had? I mean, that’s like what happened to the Israelites, right? Or is it? ...