Everything is possible for him who believes - Mark 9:23

The "everything" mentioned here does not always come simply by asking, because God is always seeking to teach you the way of faith. Your training for a life of faith requires many areas of learning, including the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, and the courage of faith. Often you will pass through many stages before you finally realize the result of faith- namely the victory of faith.

Genuine moral fibre is developed by enduring the discipline of faith. When you have made your request to God, and the answer still has not come, what are you to do?

Keep on believing His word! Never be swayed from it by what you may see or feel. Then as you stand firm, your power and your experience is being developed, strenghtened and deepened.
When you remain unswayed from your stance of faith, even in view of supposed contradictions to God's word, you grow stronger on every front.

No amount of persecution will try you as much as experince like these... ones in which you are required to wait on God. Once He has spoken His promise to work, it is truly hard to wait as you see the days go by with no fulfillment. Yet it is this discipline of faith that will bring you into a knowledge of God that would otherwise be impossible.