Someone said, "After we have prayed, our job is done. It is no longer our responsibility no matter what is the outcome." Perhaps, we will have less strife if we think like this before the Lord. Alas, most of us will lament to God for His seemingly inactivity or turn-a-deaf-ear to our legitimate cries for His Kingdom and His will to be done in our lives and on this earth. What happened ? How could a loving God who sees His children obey and submit in prayers to Him, the very precious things that He is concerned and care about and yet He seems to choose to let the evil side wins and not doing anything to vindicate His own name ? What happened to prayers not answered ?
Does it mean we pray wrongly or we did not pray within His will ? Does it mean we have sins in our lives, un-repented and un-confessed sins ? There are always questions and we will always ask.
Here is a look at some reasons why our prayers not answered.
It was a prayer with a selfish mindset. False humility, false sincerity. We could be sincerely wrong, just like terrorists who think they are fighting for justice. They are in the wrong. God will not honour such requests. Perhaps we are in sin and need repentance.
We do not comprehend the greater will of God for mankind and us. His ways are higher, His timing is reverse mathematics (a thousands year is a day, a day is a thousand years, and you do not quite know when He will reverse this mathematics). By not answering our prayers straightaway and by delaying answering prayers, He could be moulding, building and equipping us up. He could be preparing us for a greater tasks ahead.
God's scale and timing of things are not the same as ours. Mankind are limited beings confined in the 3 dimension world moving in a fixed time. If God were to sign all our petitions before Him and simply granted them to us, He might just end up giving away His Glory ! Quoted from a speaker.
We were unavailable when God replied us. In a world of connectivity, we are always connected to social network, to our families chat groups, but yet God finds us unavailable ! We are simply too busy for God to move in our lives. WE could miss an answered prayer when we shut God off with our busyness (just like Martha did to Jesus).
We show no diligence to getting prayers answered. God does not help one who does not help himself. He will have no idle beggars at his door, asking for free food while He has granted them perfect health to work themselves into an answered prayers environment. Every often, this is true, it sounds like we trust 100% to God to do miracles for us, to change our life to better, to break a bad habit, to achieve a breakthrough, but very often, we are too lazy to start the change within us. We just sit and wait for God to drop a miracle to save us.
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