recently I had a conversation with a man who told me how discouraged he was that God did not seem to be answering his prayers. In fact, instead of making things better, the situation seemed to be getting worse.
"Where is God in all of this?" he asked. "Why doesn't God answer my prayers?"
The issue of unanswered prayer is one that I hear about frequently.
Often our prayers amount to little more than a list of wants and when God seems indifferent to our wants we give up.
If our prayers don't seem to be getting answers then perhaps we need to change the way we pray.
In John 12:27-28 we have an example of this. Jesus is about to pray that he be saved from the cross when I changes his prayer to "Father, glorify your name!" That prayer was answered before it was uttered.
Prayer is about a relationship with God. When prayer is only about ourselves we shouldn't be suprised that it is unanswered.
True healing only begins when we start to look outward and upward.
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