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REASONS FOR UNANSWERED PRAYER

Discover key insights on why prayers may go unanswered and how to align your heart and actions with God's will.

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REASONS FOR UNANSWERED PRAYER

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  1. REASONS FOR UNANSWERED PRAYER 1) IT DOESN'T ASK FOR ANYTHING. 2) IT LACKS FAITH. 3) WE DID NOT WAIT ON GOD TO ANSWER, WE MOVED AHEAD OF GOD. 4) ACTION WAS REQUIRED ON OUR PART, NOT PRAYER. 5) WE SOUGHT TO CHANGE GOD'S DECLARED WILL. 6) IT DISREGARDED GOD'S KNOWN WILL. 7) OUR HEARTS ARE UNCLEAN. 8) WE LACK COMPASSION AND GRACE IN LIVING OUR LIVES. 9) WE ARE INVOLVED IN STRIFE. 10) OUR PRAYER WAS OFFERED IN PRIDE AND ARROGANCE. 11) OUR PRAYER WAS PROMPTED BY SELFISH, ULTERIOR MOTIVES. 12) WE HAVE ILL WILL AND HATRED TOWARD OTHERS. 13) IT IS INSPIRED BY CARNAL MOTIVE AND NOT BY THE SPIRIT. 14) IT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY UNCONFESSED, CONSCIOUS SIN. 15) IT IS AN EXPRESSION OF MEANINGLESS, THOUGHTLESS AND REPETITIVE PHRASES. 16) IT SEEKS TO AVOID NECESSARY AND DESERVED CHASTISEMENT. 17) IT SEEKS TO UNDO THE PAST.

  2. UNANSWERED PRAYER EX 14:15 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. (ASV) DEUT 3:23-27 23 And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying, 24 O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy mighty acts? 25 Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. (ASV) JOSH 7:11-13 11 Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the devoted thing from among you. 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among you.

  3. UNANSWERED PRAYER PS 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear: (ASV) PS 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law; (ASV) PR 8:13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate. (ASV) PR 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard. (ASV) ISA 40:31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. (ASV) LAM 3:40-44 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. (ASV)

  4. UNANSWERED PRAYER MATT 5:24 ...leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. (ASV) MATT 6:5-13 5 And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee. 7 And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil (one.) (ASV) MARK 11:23-24 23 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. 24 Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (ASV)

  5. UNANSWERED PRAYER LU 18:10 >> Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.... (ASV) JOHN 14:10-14 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater (works) than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do. (ASV) JOHN 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (ASV) JOHN 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. (ASV) ROM 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, (then) do we with patience wait for it. (ASV) 1 COR 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (ASV)

  6. UNANSWERED PRAYER 2 TIM 2:24-26 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will. (ASV) HEB 6:12 ...that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (ASV) HEB 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. (ASV) HEB 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing (unto him); for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and (that) he is a rewarder of them that seek after him. (ASV)

  7. UNANSWERED PRAYER HEB 12:5-11 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom (his) father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened (us) as seemed good to them; but he for (our) profit, that (we) may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, (even the fruit) of righteousness. (ASV) JAMES 1:3-4 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have (its) perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. (ASV) JAMES 2:14-16 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? (ASV)

  8. UNANSWERED PRAYER JAMES 3:13-16 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not (a wisdom) that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. (ASV) JAMES 4:2-4 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend (it) in your pleasures. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. (ASV) JAMES 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. (ASV)

  9. UNANSWERED PRAYER 1 PET 3:7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with (your wives) according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. (ASV) 1 JN 1:8-10 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. (ASV) 1 JN 5:14-16 14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: 15 and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. 16 If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and (God) will give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he should make request. (ASV)

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