An item you requested is on backorder

Backorder: a customer order that cannot be filled when presented, and for which the customer is prepared to wait for some time.

 

I have experienced this myself.  I remember ordering a few books from an online site and getting an email letting me know that one of the books  was not in stock and had been placed on “backorder.”  I was given the  option to cancel the backordered item, but I wasn’t in a rush, and more importantly I wasn’t able to get it anywhere else so… I waited.  It eventually came in the mail.

 

The rest of my order had already arrived.  And had I not known about the backorder I could have said, “I can’t believe they forgot one book!”  I might have gotten mad or frustrated and started complaining about the company.

 

Even though the item wasn’t readily available it was allocated to my order.  As soon as it became available, it would be forwarded to me.  It was definitely mine, even though I hadn’t received it yet.

 

Can you see where I am going with this?

 

Prayers are the same way.

Sometime in our long list of requests… something gets put on backorder.  For whatever reason.

 

The prayer is definitely answered.  The answer is allocated to you.  It is yours… you just haven’t received it yet.

 

Don’t get discouraged.  Don’t lose hope.

 

And above all… don’t cancel the item! 

 

Sometimes God holds back to see if you will give up.  Sometimes your importunity (persistence) is what causes it to be delivered.

Sometimes it is sitting right on your front porch, or in your mailbox and you haven’t even received it.  You think it isn’t coming, you aren’t expecting it… so you miss it.

 

Well, I can tell you… He delivers!!! And always right on time.

 

Keep checking… keep looking… keep asking for “status updates”…

 

He is faithful to deliver.

SDG