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ANSWERED PRAYER, by                    
First Line: Believe your prayer is answered, truly so
Last Line: When time is ripe he will reveal his power.
Subject(s): Prayer


Believe your prayer is answered, truly so.
For God in wisdom waits to set you free.
Perhaps no path can break across your sea
Until the stinging east-wind rise and blow.
Perhaps for forty years your soul must grow
Before you glimpse the fire on bush or tree.
Alone within a cave your fate may be
That out of silence God's own voice may flow.

Be sure that God will answer honest prayer --
Not always as we hoped or planned the way.
Have patience then to wait His promised hour.
For He who marks the sparrow's fall out there
Will hear the child who lifts his heart to pray.
When time is ripe He will reveal His power.





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