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➡️It’s so frustrating when I know God loves me, and I feel like my heart’s pure – but I’m praying about something and God seems silent.  I know he hears me, and yet my prayers still aren’t being answered.  It doesn’t make sense.   I remember one time I was praying for a car, for example, but I really couldn’t afford it, and my neighbor, who’s not even a Christian, drives up in a brand new $90,000 Tahoe. What is the deal with that?

Here’s five reasons why God may not be answering our prayers:

1…It’s not God’s will.  James 4:15 says that we should always pray “if it’s the Lords will, we will do this or that.”  HOWEVER, this does not apply when praying the Word of God – 2 Corinthians 1:20 says, “Every promise of God is yes and amen”.  This is the reason it’s so powerful to pray the Word – because the answer is always yes. 

2…I’m asking with wrong motives.  James 4:3 says, “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”

3…I don’t believe.  According to James 1:6-7, “When you ask, you must believe, and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.“ 

4…I’m not ready.  James 1:2-4 says, “Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds (like your prayers not being answered) because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”  There are some things I don’t give my children, for example, not because of my lack of love, but because they’re just not ready – my blessings would crush them. 

5…God has more.  It’s like we’re praying for a loaf of bread because we’re hungry, and yet God wants to give us a grocery store, so we can feed the whole community.  According to Ephesians 3:20 God is the one who is able to do “immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, according to his power that’s at work within us.”  

One of my favorite names of God comes from Psalm 23 – the Lord is my SHEPHERD. Be encouraged as you pray that God sees you, he knows your name, and he knows exactly where you need to be – and he will get you there.  Trust Him in that. I Corinthians 2:9 says that we can’t “ask or imagine all that God has in store for us.”

That’s in the Bible, and the Bible is always right!