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When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 7:56am On Apr 16, 2023
Dear friends, I feel delighted to share some thoughts with you this morning as I communed with myself.

It is not unusual to find yourself asking God for one thing or the other. It is also not unusual to mandate the integrity of God to do what He said he will do.

It even gets crazier when in the midst of your waiting, a brother/sister who isn’t close to God as you are, or even appear righteous as you think you are, walks to the front of the church to share a testimony that you think he/she isn’t qualified for.

You leave the meeting asking yourself what exactly isn’t right with the version of God you have.

How about when you join Pastor Jerry Eze every morning and yet you don’t get answers after six months?

Well, I’m sorry I don’t have a holistic answer for you. At least not in this write-up.

My focus is in your feeling, the flow of emotions at the quietness of God; your feeling at the stagnancy of life; your feeling at the numbness of events around you, when God has decided not to answer you for no just cause.

During this kairos moment, you are faced with either seeking the best alternative or continuing with God whose status you can’t even view.

But if you will turn aside, and give thanks, and give thanks again, and again and again, with those tears, that betrayal, in the midst of that chronic lack; suddenly, your negative emotions begins to evaporate, and as you give more thanks, your soul becomes lighter, and you give more thanks, your mind opens up to possibilities, a new energy is released.

The problem may not be solved immediately but the lightness of your soul will begin to ferry you beyond the bondage of that situation.

Another layer of you will spring up that will compel your answer to you.

Dear friends, today is another day to try thanksgiving.

Thank God, not just for what He has done but for what He will empower you to conquer.

God bless you.

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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Billionaire2: 7:59am On Apr 16, 2023
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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by TemplarLandry: 8:00am On Apr 16, 2023
I know this through experiential knowledge; any time God doesn't answer our prayers, we didn't pray according to His will.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by hopefulLandlord: 8:14am On Apr 16, 2023
Okay
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 8:18am On Apr 16, 2023
Billionaire2:
It’s a mind-game Bro..
‘when the solution is simple god is answering’

Have you wondered why God allowed Job passed through what he did?

Would you say, God didn’t have the power to save him or the solution was too big for God?
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 8:19am On Apr 16, 2023
Prayer is useless

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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 8:19am On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
I know this through experiential knowledge; any time God doesn't answer our prayers, we didn't pray according to His will.

You have a point sir.
But would you say challenges are not part of his will?
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 8:22am On Apr 16, 2023
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Prayer is useless

Yes, you are right.
To a novice, prayer is useless.
To someone whose mind is blinded, prayer is useless.
To a man void of vision, prayer is useless.
To a person who lacks understanding, prayer is useless.
To a person who believes he can fix everything about his/her life, Prayer is useless.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 8:23am On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
I know this through experiential knowledge; any time God doesn't answer our prayers, we didn't pray according to His will.
That is a bloody lie! undecided

Scripture states that :

■ God does not answer any of the prayers of the unrighteous; the prayers of the unrighteous are an abomination to God because their requests are tainted by their sins and rendered unholy and unacceptable to God. This means not even the pleas of a sinner for forgiveness of sins are answered by God
■ God answers all of the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting the righteous the desires of their hearts. God basically answers every single prayer of a righteous man. So long as an individual is righteous, it does not matter whether he prays according to an idea of a will or not, God will grant him whatever it is he asked for.

When you consider these declarations made by God through His prophets, one big take away is this: if it seems God answers none or only some of your prayers, the truth is instead that you are unrighteous and even the answers you assumed came from God didn't infact come from Him answering your prayers. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 8:30am On Apr 16, 2023
Tescentre:
Yes, you are right. To a novice, prayer is useless. To someone whose mind is blinded, prayer is useless. To a man void of vision, prayer is useless. To a person who lacks understanding, prayer is useless. To a person who believes he can fix everything about his/her life, Prayer is useless.
To the unrighteous, prayer is useless given that God only answers the prayers of the righteous. And there are no exceptions made by God as far as the unrighteous are concerned. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Billionaire2: 8:30am On Apr 16, 2023
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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 8:33am On Apr 16, 2023
Tescentre:
■Have you wondered why God allowed Job passed through what he did? Would you say, God didn’t have the power to save him or the solution was too big for God?
1. God allowed Job go through that ordeal for as long as He did but one thing is for sure, God answered jobs every prayers, and this is recorded in the final chapters of the book. Why? Because Job was a righteous man of God. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Righthussle: 8:41am On Apr 16, 2023
Billionaire2:
It’s a mind-game Bro..
‘when the solution is simple god is answering’

Religious people are so funny.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Lasgidi90(m): 8:41am On Apr 16, 2023
What god? You self reason am na if you were in god's shoes. What would you do if person continually dey ask you for wetin him fit do for himself. You go do am for am? More that 90% of what we ask of god are just flimsy things that we can do for ourselves and that is why I believe say god just fold hand, cross leg dey look una make una dey play.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 8:44am On Apr 16, 2023
Billionaire2:


What I wonder more is why God is omnipotent, omniscient, and controls everything but when something bad happens we blame Satan

Lol…
God does not control the earth as it seems.
Satans controls the earth.
John 14:30
2 Cor. 4:4
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by JASONjnr(m): 8:51am On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
I know this through experiential knowledge; any time God doesn't answer our prayers, we didn't pray according to His will.

What happened to God knowing your heart and what you think?

Many Christians preach different thing and this is why Christianity is misleading.

Some say that, God already answers your prayer before you even ask.

Some say, you must ask before he will act on your needs...

Now you're coming up with a different thing.

Are we ever going to understand this religion?

Because everyone seems to be hearing from God yet we get different prophecies from them and we're still not a good people or a better nation!
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 9:08am On Apr 16, 2023
JASONjnr:
■ What happened to God knowing your heart and what you think? Many Christians preach different thing and this is why Christianity is misleading. Some say that, God already answers your prayer before you even ask. Some say, you must ask before he will act on your needs.. Now you're coming up with a different thing. Are we ever going to understand this religion? Because everyone seems to be hearing from God yet we get different prophecies from them and we're still not a good people or a better nation!
Read the book for yourself so you can counter the many delusions thrown around by men claiming to hear from God.. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by JASONjnr(m): 9:14am On Apr 16, 2023
Kobojunkiee:
Read the book for yourself so you can counter the many delusions thrown around by men claiming to hear from God.. undecided

It's not about reading the Bible by yourself....

Will you go to the church while you're getting preached to by the likes of Adebayo and you stand up to counter their preachings? Or prophecies that are all lies?

These preachings gets to you either way because your children or wives or friends might just believe them and will see you as an infdel or pagan if you try to counter them.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 9:19am On Apr 16, 2023
JASONjnr:
■ It's not about reading the Bible by yourself.... Will you go to the church while you're getting preached to by the likes of Adebayo and you stand up to counter their preachings? Or prophecies that are all lies? These preachings gets to you either way because your children or wives or friends might just believe them and will see you as an infdel or pagan if you try to counter them.
Does it really matter what others see you as so long as you know whose you are? undecided

I think for one who is certain of God and truly trusts Him beyond the lies of men, the ultimate and focus need be attaining God's righteousness after which all things will be added, and the ignorance of those around made bare for all to see. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Billionaire2: 9:44am On Apr 16, 2023
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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 9:52am On Apr 16, 2023
Billionaire2:


God created earth and Satan controls it…. A joke or something?
It is called mystery.
Does not make sense to logical mind.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Billionaire2: 9:57am On Apr 16, 2023
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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by likered: 10:38am On Apr 16, 2023
Man is powerful and God gave them the right to choose
and until we pray according to his will, he can do nothing. 1 john 5:14
somehow we are powerful like God for when we even choose otherwise, he still does nothing.

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Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 10:41am On Apr 16, 2023
likered:
■ Man is powerful and God gave them the right to choose
and until we pray according to his will, he can do nothing. 1 john 5:14
somehow we are powerful like God for when we even choose otherwise, he still does nothing.
1. God said All things whatsoever you ask believeing(righteousness, not to be confused with mental accent) you will receive. If one is limited in what one can ask for then doesn't that then mean God lied? undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Nobody: 11:07am On Apr 16, 2023
God is our father, right? This answers a lot of questions!

I've was a child of a very good father (a great father by many standards), and now a parent. These give me some deep insights.

Sometimes, without asking, a father just gives his child good things, simply out of love.
Sometimes, the child asks and the father gives because he considers the request reasonable at that time and situation.
Sometimes, the child asks, the father doesn't give due to some good reasons, but on the child's persistent asking, the father decides to give something else that is better in that situation and time, as a show of good faith.
Sometimes, the child asks, but the father delays giving until a better time (due to other situations or case of child's disobedience).
Sometimes, child asks, father does not give, because he is planning something much bigger and better a bit later, when that's ready he gives.
Sometimes the (matured or wise) child asks, but father has a different opinion, father and child reason together, and the child is able to convince father why granting that request is of good benefit. So father gives child.
Sometimes the child asks, but father does not grant the request because what is being asked is of no good benefit, or even harmful.

We often forget the dynamics of parent-child relationship as children of God, whereas this is what He wants when He made us His children - to behave as children and not servants!
Think on the above, it will change your perception of God as concerning your payer life. Let His Spirit commune with you so you know which situation you are at any time.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by TemplarLandry: 11:13am On Apr 16, 2023
Human righteousness is like a filthy rag in the eyes of Elohim.
Kobojunkiee:
That is a bloody lie! undecided

Scripture states that :

■ God does not answer any of the prayers of the unrighteous; the prayers of the unrighteous are an abomination to God because their requests are tainted by their sins and rendered unholy and unacceptable to God. This means not even the pleas of a sinner for forgiveness of sins are answered by God
■ God answers all of the prayers of the righteous; He delights in granting the righteous the desires of their hearts. God basically answers every single prayer of a righteous man. So long as an individual is righteous, it does not matter whether he prays according to an idea of a will or not, God will grant him whatever it is he asked for.

When you consider these declarations made by God through His prophets, one big take away is this: if it seems God answers none or only some of your prayers, the truth is instead that you are unrighteous and even the answers you assumed came from God didn't infact come from Him answering your prayers. undecided
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 11:15am On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
Human righteousness is like a filthy rag in the eyes of Elohim.
Do you say that to mean that God's demand for righteousness and nothing less is of no meaning? lipsrsealed
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by TemplarLandry: 11:19am On Apr 16, 2023
By seeing ourselves as “righteous” we're committing sin, thereby giving room for religious spirit to possess us.
Kobojunkiee:
Do you say that to mean that God's demand for righteousness and nothing less is of no meaning? lipsrsealed
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Tescentre(m): 1:02pm On Apr 16, 2023
crows2ravens:
God is our father, right? This answers a lot of questions!

I've was a child of a very good father (a great father by many standards), and now a parent. These give me some deep insights.

Sometimes, without asking, a father just gives his child good things, simply out of love.
Sometimes, the child asks and the father gives because he considers the request reasonable at that time and situation.
Sometimes, the child asks, the father doesn't give due to some good reasons, but on the child's persistent asking, the father decides to give something else that is better in that situation and time, as a show of good faith.
Sometimes, the child asks, but the father delays giving until a better time (due to other situations or case of child's disobedience).
Sometimes, child asks, father does not give, because he is planning something much bigger and better a bit later, when that's ready he gives.
Sometimes the (matured or wise) child asks, but father has a different opinion, father and child reason together, and the child is able to convince father why granting that request is of good benefit. So father gives child.
Sometimes the child asks, but father does not grant the request because what is being asked is of no good benefit, or even harmful.

We often forget the dynamics of parent-child relationship as children of God, whereas this is what He wants when He made us is children - to behave as children and not servants!
Think on the above, it will change your perception of God as concerning your payer life. Let His Spirit commune with you so you know which situation you are at any time.

God bless you.
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkiee: 3:30pm On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
By seeing ourselves as “righteous” we're committing sin, thereby giving room for religious spirit to possess us.
Are you wanting us to believe the because you have personal issues to deal with, then it should also follow that God's demand for righteousness and nothing less is of no meaning? lipsrsealed
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by TemplarLandry: 3:32pm On Apr 16, 2023
You're driving the discourse out of context. Let Holy Spirit the best teacher guide you on what “righteousness” entails.
Kobojunkiee:
Are you wanting us to believe the because you have personal issues to deal with, then it should also follow that God's demand for righteousness and nothing less is of no meaning? lipsrsealed
Re: When God Does Not Answer Your Prayers by Kobojunkie: 3:39pm On Apr 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
You're driving the discourse out of context. Let Holy Spirit the best teacher guide you on what “righteousness” entails.
Really? https://www.nairaland.com/7110397/gospel-minddump/3#122064044

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