Praying Through the Bible

My Word of the Year for 2010 is "prayer".  God has been teaching me so much about prayer and how we are to relate to Him.  I have grown closer in my relationship with Him by keeping a prayer journal and learning more about prayer.  One of the books that I have been reading is The Power of Praying Through the Bible.  This is not the type of book you would just read through.  It is more of a devotional.  Stormie has selected certain passages from the Bible starting with Genesis and working through to Revelation.  For each passage she writes a short devotional about prayer.  I have gotten through all the Genesis devotions and am now moving onto Exodus.

I have recently been struggling with the fact that some of my prayers God has given no answer or He is saying "Wait" for the time being.  When I read this paragraph in Stormie's book it bought me peace and conviction at the same time...

"How long do you patiently wait for answers to your prayers? Does a week seem too long to wait? What about a month? Waiting for a year seems to be beyond our ability. To see that Abram waited for a quarter of a century for an answer should give us hope to wait for our own prayers to be answered."

I marveled at this passage...for 2009 my word was "patience" and now this year "prayer".  God is rolling both these words together now for me as I pray and patiently wait on Him!