The Lord answers.... He may not answer as quickly as you have come to expect with your microwave popcorn expectations but the answer is visible as you commit to waiting, living for, living up to and living to receive His answer. Waiting for a holy God to answer may mean waiting faithfully and sincerely in sanctified living. He may ask you to give you what is in your hands( five loaves and two fish). Drunkenness is a sin but the greater sinner is the drunkard who hits and hurts his wife and children. Alcohol is not a sin. The Lord wants balance, good health and moderation. It may have powered Granddad's Model T. The moderate consumption of alcohol is likely to keep you away from a doctor as it lowers blood pressue and cholesterol in the case of wine and beer. The truth is it might help to kill bacteria in the water you are drinking AND YOUR ANGRY DAUGHTER'S SYPHILIS in the cheese cake she dropped off. She is angry because she thinks you look too yongue for your age. Your job in faith is to have a faith for yourself and one that is in accordance with the word. That would mean that your sincere faith is not acted out on the stage or street corner where your action is motivated by social acceptance or approval. Your sincere faith is your sincere choice to live in accordance with a peace you believe a great supreme being has given you as you seek His help in treating others as you wish to be treated. Sometimes no answer about that excellent Acer computer deal at $199.99 is the answer to just buy some machine; possibly used or to wait for the New Years clearance sales. What does it matter to your faith and how God feels about you if your neighbour washed his hands before he opened the freezer to take out a box of ice cream? But, it matters to you and you are hoping that you can uh perceive or feel whether His cleanliness accords with yours. Cleanliness is nxt to Godliness but...your judgement of others is not next to Godliness so smile( you are on candid camera!) and treat others as you wish to be treated. Well, what did you ask the Lord to forgive in your life? Apparently nothing since your faith involved nothing else but judging others and seeking to steal the Lord's throne as you judge others while excluding yourself from this abuse you impose on the world as you wash your hands 200 times a day and that abortion you forgot to confess is probably the reason for all that washing. Read Matthew 7 and Mark 7 and don't forget to read the word before you pick up the soap with your hands. The word, if you receive it, will clean your hands.