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“It was an answer to my prayers but not the answer I expected or what I prayed for.” A good male friend of mine made a similar statement when he was describing how he felt about his new girlfriend a few years ago. I was a little confused about what he meant, so I asked him how that was possible. He explained that he’d prayed to God about the kind of woman he wanted to be in a relationship with. One of his prayers was that she be a “strong Christian.”
When he met his current girlfriend a few months later, he was ecstatic because she was a “strong” Christian. However, when she told him that she was practicing celibacy, he thought for a moment that he didn’t want her to be THAT strong. He admitted that God had answered his prayer but that it was not exactly what he’d expected…