What do you mean I can't have it?

What do you mean I can't have it?...I want it, I want it, I want it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does this somehow sound familiar to you? It does to me!
When I was growing up and my siblings and I went grocery shopping with my parents, we ALWAYS wanted some candy. We would ask and ask and ask, and most of the time my dad would say NO.
Or going to a mall, we would go into a toy store and wanted Barbies and dolls, to what my parents, if it wasn't a special occasion, would again say no.
Many times I wanted something so bad, that if my dad didn't give it to me, I would have a fit (yes, I guess I was a spoiled brat sometimes). But even that didn't work with him, why? Because he knew what was best for me.
He wouldn't buy me certain dolls I wanted because he knew they were not going to last long and then I was really going to cry once my "new" doll was broken after only a few times of playing with it. He always made sure I got what was best for me, and he was always right.

The other night at our Women's classes at Church, our class leader told a story of someone she knows, that inspired me so much, and made me REALLY think about my Heavenly Father and how He always knows why He says "yes" and why He says "no":

A few years ago, there was this teenage girl and her family that she knew. The teenager had been taking the bus and trains to get to school and her part time job. She would do that every day with a very close friend. One day, they heard of someone who was selling a car at a really cheap price. When she went to look at the car, she realized it was very old, but since she was able to afford it, she and her friend decided that they were going to buy it together and then drive it to school and work, so that they didn't have to take the train and bus anymore.
She realized she had to ask her father for permission first. When she did, her dad said "no". She pleaded and pleaded and her dad didn't change her mind, he still said that he didn't want her to buy that car.
She got upset, but little did she know that her father had been saving money to buy her "dream car". She got it a few weeks later, and you can imagine her happiness when she got not only a brand new car, but her dream one as well.
Still to this day, she drives that car and absolutely loves it!!

How many times we ask God for things that we want and get a "no" for an answer, but get so upset because we didn't get what we wanted?
Many times I’ve prayed for some things that didn't come, and then said to God "OK, I'm going to pray agaaaaaain and I know now it'll happen", only to realize that God does not change His mind and that He knows that if He says "no", it's because He has something better for me.
I used to get upset, frustrated and even very sad when a prayer went unanswered. I used to ask God why wouldn't He give that to me if He knew I wanted it so bad...Well, thank God that He doesn't answer all my prayers, because otherwise, I'd probably would have gotten in trouble or would be crying over that "broken toy". After the "no s", He's always shown me that He had been saving to give me my "dream car".
I love it how Ruth Bell Graham once said that if God would have answered her prayers about a husband, she would have married the wrong guy, and not Billy Graham...Can you imagine that? God certainly knows what He's doing.

Trust in your Heavenly Father. Know that He ALWAYS has the best for you.
Sometimes the world's point of view of "the best" is not the same point of view He has, but who would you rather trust?
He always has something wonderful in store for us, He's just waiting for the right moment to bless us with it. Trust in him with all your heart, in good and bad times, because He always knows what He's doing.
So if you don't get that house, that car, that job, that vacation, that husband, that wife, those babies...Know that He has something better for you or it might just not be the right time yet. There is a season for everything...or could you have snow during summer or 85 degree temperatures during winter?

The Bible is full of stories about God's perfect timing. About his children praying to him and not getting certain things at a certain time, but look at the answers later on....amazing results!!! Well, it's no different with us now, we are his children too and are called by His name...How awesome is that!

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:11-13.

I just want to leave you with a little poem by Ruth Graham. See what happens when you get to really know your Savior:

I lay my why s
before your Cross
in worship kneeling,
my mind too numb
for thought,
my heart beyond
all feeling.
And worshipping,
realize that I
in knowing You
don't need a why