You believed and strongly held onto the promise given you. Years have come and gone yet the promise is not anywhere in sight. Well, take heart; you are neither alone nor the first to enroll in this school of waiting. Consider Eve: The promised Seed that would crush the serpent’s head for the redemption of mankind came millenniums later. Yes, Jesus could not come earlier than He did; He came right on time – in the fullness of time as the Bible calls it in Galatians 4:4. So will it be with you.
You will never meet an individual who does not want to succeed in life because God never created any such people. There is an innate, Godly desire in every person to accomplish something worthwhile whether of obvious outward significance or otherwise. This urge to succeed is not evil, it was implanted in us by a successful God who after He created all things was pleased by them, sat back and said it was all good, then rested. Even when the Fall happened, He immediately got working to succeed in the restoration of creation to its original state and purpose. Because God is a God of success, man – who was created in His image – whether born again or still in the fallen state, possesses that attribute that inwardly cries for success.