God’s Timing by Tim Zier — Why Every Prayer Is Answered Now

Gods Timing, as Tim Zier teaches it in this message, is always now: every prayer is answered the moment it is prayed, even when the answer takes time to show up in this world. He explains the delay through the difference between our realm of time, space and matter, where there is resistance, and God’s realm, where there is none. He also shares how a prayer he prayed for about 30 years finally showed up.

Along the way he uses everyday pictures, from a spinning coin to a football play, to show why patience and the Word of God keep faith working. Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the message, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps for anyone still waiting on an answered prayer.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was posted at NTC Ministries on December 3, 2024. Tim Zier speaks informally, the way he says he is used to teaching a youth group, and he stops several times to take questions from the room. He tells listeners he is condensing a large subject into a short version, so the message moves quickly from point to point.

His central claim is simple: God is not random. Everything He does follows a plan, a purpose and a principle, and that includes how and when prayer is answered. Once you understand the realm you live in, he says, you can stop guessing and start standing on certainty.

Church That Adds and Multiplies

Tim Zier opens with the gifts Christ gave to the church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (Ephesians 4:11). God, he says, was not kidding when He gave them. He reads a lot of social media and sees many people who say they do not like church. His answer is that they simply went to the wrong church.

Tim Zier compares it to a bad doctor: you do not give up on medicine, you find a different doctor. When he started building houses, five or six banks turned down his first loan. Every no discouraged him, but every no also moved him closer to the right bank, and once he found it he was in business. A wrong church is not the end of the story; it is a sign you are not supposed to be there.

His rule of thumb is that everything is like math. It either adds and multiplies to your life or subtracts and divides. He drives a long way to attend NTC because the church and its people add and multiply to his life. That is why the Bible says not to forsake assembling together (Hebrews 10:25): believers meet to encourage and build each other up.

And they need it, because everyone runs into resistance in the world. Bad days come and things are not perfect out there. That word, resistance, becomes one of the keys to everything Tim Zier says later about why answered prayer can seem slow to arrive.

A God of Laws, Not Hocus Pocus

Tim Zier starts his explanation in Genesis 1:1. In the beginning is time, the heavens is space and the earth is matter. That continuum of time, space and matter is the realm we live in. Referring to Dr. Hohman’s earlier teaching on God and the laws of physics, he insists that God is not “willy-nilly.”

He offers examples of what he sees as precise design. If the earth were ten percent closer to the sun, he says, we would burn up; ten percent farther and we would freeze. Jupiter, in his telling, shields the earth from asteroids, and if it sat elsewhere it would protect a different planet. Everything is orchestrated perfectly.

Why does that matter? Because you have to learn the vehicle you are operating. When he learned to drive, the dimmer switch was on the floor; on a new vehicle it is somewhere else. In the same way, believers need to learn the laws of the realm they live in, down to what he calls the quantum level. He says the book of Ephesians is full of the ideas of entanglement and superposition, presented in a user-friendly form.

We are connected to Jesus at that level, he teaches, because whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). Being born again, speaking in tongues and healing all work through laws. Religion, he warns, will never understand God, because Jesus did not come to start a religion. He came to show us the Father and His kingdom.

He also wants believers to stop fearing science, since the word simply means knowledge, and God said His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). There are reasons prayers are answered and reasons people are healed. That means there is certainty. God’s ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9), but they are there to be searched out.

What Gods Timing Really Means

When Tim Zier was newly born again in his early twenties, older church members would answer his hopes for ministry with “in God’s timing.” He admits he wanted to slap them, because what they really meant was “procrastinate; it probably isn’t going to happen.” God does not want us to procrastinate, he says, so we need to understand what time actually is.

Time, he explains, is a dimension. At fourteen he stood on the Custer battlefield, the very place the battle was fought; the only thing different was the time. He sees the same thing on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1–3), where Peter, James and John watched Jesus talk with Moses and Elijah, who belonged to a different time frame.

Then Tim Zier turns to Hebrews 11:1: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Things not seen are still things. Healing, being born again, financial and relational prosperity: none of them can be seen before they arrive, yet they are real. So are your thoughts.

To make the point, he describes an experiment he once tried. Three drops of water on microscope slides were frozen; one was left alone, one was blessed with words of love and gratitude, and one was cursed. In his account, the blessed slide showed the same pattern as the first but larger, while the cursed one “looked like cancer.” He links it to Jesus speaking to the fig tree (Mark 11:12–14).

Thoughts have presence, he says. You can walk into a room where a couple is smiling and still feel the argument that just happened. Jesus told us to take no thought, saying (Matthew 6:31), and said that looking with lust is already adultery in the heart (Matthew 5:28), because the inner realm is a real realm. Our prayers live in that unseen dimension too.

Every Prayer Is Answered When You Pray

Everyone has prayed and wondered why God has not answered. Tim Zier points to Daniel, who fasted for 21 days. At the end, the angel told him his words had been heard from the first day, but there had been resistance along the way (Daniel 10:12–13). We live in a dimension with resistance. Where God lives, there is none.

He says the Lord told him this in Fort Lauderdale in 1977: every prayer you pray is answered, no ifs, ands or buts, and it is answered as soon as you pray. All the promises of God are yes and amen (2 Corinthians 1:20). That is one of the laws of the kingdom. We can come to God with confidence (Hebrews 4:15–16) and know that we have what we asked of Him (1 John 5:14–15).

The things not seen are in the realm of eternity, which has no past, present or future. It is always now. So if you are believing God for healing, he says, you have it right now, but because you live where there is resistance, you have to enforce it through your decisions. Religion that says “you never know if it’s God’s will” has stepped into hocus pocus, because a God you can never predict cannot be counted on.

His own answered prayer makes it personal. He has a son he had not seen in about thirty years and had believed God would restore their relationship. In October he sent a short birthday message on Facebook, his son started a conversation, and they have been talking ever since. When was that answered prayer actually answered? Thirty years ago. When did it show up? In October. The table below summarizes the two realms as he describes them.

The Spinning Coin and Godly Interference

In the faith movement of his early years, people said “I’m not sick, I’m healed,” and Tim Zier wondered how he could be both at once. His answer uses the idea of superposition. Spin a coin, and while it turns it could land either way. What decides it is not chance, he says, since there is no such thing, but interference, the friction that eventually tips it over.

The Bible says we are seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). We are one with Him, yet we can still have a bad day, because we are like that spinning coin. Whether we fall toward God or the devil depends on what influences us: doubt and unbelief, or the Word of God. And it is stacked in our favor, because God said to choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19).

We need godly interference, and the Word is that interference. Tim Zier remembers running pass patterns in football, where one player ran interference so another could catch the ball. He adds that God is our rereward, our rear guard (Isaiah 52:12). Faith is our access into the grace in which we stand (Romans 5:2). Access is easy, he says, even when the manifestation is not, and if we never access it, it will not show up.

This is where patience comes in for anyone waiting on answered prayer. James 1:4 says to let patience have its perfect work so that you may be complete, lacking nothing, while Colossians 2:10 says we are already complete in Him. The first is our decision in the spinning-coin state; the second is our position in Christ. Patience, he says, is the force that keeps your faith alive and working.

Tim Zier adds one more picture. Though the outward man perishes, the inward man is renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16), so our spirit runs on a different time frame from our body. He notes that identical clocks would not keep the same time on the earth, the moon and Jupiter. A God who created time that is not the same everywhere, he says, knows how to handle whatever you are facing today.

That is why he tells the room that some of them have all but given up hope, and that their time is now. Today is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2), and salvation includes everything in God’s kingdom. The saying that God answers prayer with yes, no or wait is not in the Bible, he insists. God’s timing is always now.

Renewing Your Mind Against Deception

A listener asked how to walk this out in spirit, soul and body every day. Tim Zier agreed that walking in the Spirit is that realm (Galatians 5:16). Everything is a decision, he said: whenever something comes at you, lean toward what the Bible says about it. Our thoughts are a real dimension, so the battle begins there.

Tim Zier compares it to learning guitar or learning to swim. Neither was easy at first, and you only learn by doing it, and doing it correctly, every day. That is why the Bible says to renew your mind (Romans 12:2). Practice it long enough and one day you will be driving down the road and hear the Holy Spirit, and find yourself in conversation with Him.

Another listener said we choose life by refusing to come out of agreement with what God says. Tim Zier agreed and asked why anyone would ever disagree with God. The answer is deception. The devil is more than a counterfeiter, he says. He takes the real thing and alters it, because a lie is not believable unless it carries some truth.

Tim Zier then gives a candid confession. In 2009, after decades as a believer, he was so upset with God that he tore his Bible to shreds. He had prayed, seen no answers and believed the lie that God did not have his back. Working through it, he concluded that God had to be real and that it was not God’s fault. What he had been waiting for had been his all along; it simply took time.

Because we live in a realm with time, Tim Zier explains, God answers immediately, but the answer still has to transfer into this realm, and it shows up as time allows. He also shares a testimony of healing. Years after praying to be healed of ADHD, he felt what he describes as warm oil come over him while watching a video, and he says later testing found no trace of it. His conclusion about answered prayer: when you pray, it will show up.

Living in Gods Timing This Week

Tim Zier ends by encouraging the room to ask questions, because questions open doors. Here are practical steps drawn from this message:

• Thank God for the answer now. Treat every prayer you have prayed as answered the moment you prayed it, as 2 Corinthians 1:20 says.
• Let patience work. When nothing has shown up yet, choose patience instead of giving up, remembering his thirty-year wait for his son.
• Run Godly interference. Put the Word in front of doubt so that your spinning coin tips toward life.
• Renew your mind daily. Practice it like guitar or swimming, and ask what the Bible says about each situation.
• Watch for altered truth. Notice the half-true thought that says God does not have your back, and reject it.
• Find a church that adds and multiplies. If one place subtracts and divides, keep looking until you find the right one.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 God gave gifts to men; the wrong church
• 1:02 Everything adds and multiplies or subtracts
• 2:02 A thirty-year prayer and three dimensions
• 3:23 Precise design and learning the vehicle
• 4:34 Entangled with Jesus; religion versus reality
• 5:51 Science is knowledge: Hosea 4:6
• 7:21 What “in God’s timing” really means
• 8:34 Transfiguration and Hebrews 11:1
• 9:54 The water experiment and the fig tree
• 12:03 Daniel’s 21 days and resistance
• 13:14 Every prayer answered: yes and amen
• 14:32 Sick and healed: the spinning coin
• 18:17 Always now; his son after thirty years
• 19:39 James 1:4: let patience work
• 22:32 The inward man and spacetime
• 25:14 Your time is now
• 27:53 The Word as interference; God our rereward
• 30:12 A healing testimony and a question
• 32:20 Renew your mind daily
• 34:34 The devil alters the truth
• 35:55 The torn Bible in 2009
• 37:03 Answers take time to show up

Frequently Asked Questions

If my prayer is already answered, why do I still have to wait?

Tim Zier explains that God answers immediately, but the answer has to move from His realm into ours, and our realm includes time and resistance. Daniel’s answer was sent on the first day yet arrived after 21. Because of that, he says, receiving an answer does not mean it shows up right away. It will show up as time allows, which is why patience matters so much.

What if someone dies before their prayer shows up?

Someone in the room raised a version of this, and Tim Zier answered directly: did that person receive it? Yes, absolutely. The answer was given when they prayed. He says we simply have to take time into account, because we live in a realm that has it. Receiving an answer from God and seeing it manifest in this world are two different moments.

Does God sometimes say no or wait to prayer?

Tim Zier rejects that idea. He says the saying that sometimes God says yes, sometimes no and sometimes wait for later is not in the Bible, and that repeating something often does not make it the gospel. Since all the promises of God are yes and amen, he teaches that the delay is never God holding back. It comes from resistance in this realm and from what we allow to influence us.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Hebrews 11:1 — faith is the substance of things hoped for
• 2 Corinthians 1:20 — the promises of God are yes and amen
• Daniel 10:12–13 — heard from the first day
• Genesis 1:1 — time, space and matter
• 1 Corinthians 6:17 — one spirit with the Lord
• Ephesians 2:6 — seated in heavenly places
• James 1:4 — let patience have its perfect work
• Deuteronomy 30:19 — choose life
• Romans 12:2 — renew your mind

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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