Warren Wiersbe tells of the time when he was helping to paint the outside of his neighbors’ home.  His neighbors had a small black dog that had a ritual of going to the back door of the house.  Once the little dog took up his station at the back door, he would bark and bark until someone finally got the message and let him out.

One day Wiersbe was painting the outside of the house when no one was home.  The neighbor’s dog started his ritual at the back door and barked and barked all day long.  The sad thing, Wiersbe said, was that it never dawned in his little brain that all his barking was totally useless—no one was home to hear!

Perhaps many of you feel like that dog.  You have prayed and prayed for something and there seems to be no answer—there seems to be no one home!  And maybe you…