REASONS; WHY NOT RECEIVING ANSWERS TO YOUR PRAYERS?
It may happen in
sometimes you have prayed faithful to God but still not yet receiving answers
to your prayers. Time is passing, and you are in a position of giving up. Never
give up sometimes God wants to see how patient we are! But this might not be a
reason for not receiving answers, there might be some other reasons why you are
not receiving answers to your prayers. And these reasons are caused by you,
yourself. Today God will teach us a wonderful lesson which will change our life
and put us in a better position of communicating with our God and making Him
respond to our prayers instantly and appropriately.
The following are some reasons which hindering our God from
answering our prayers, once we keep these things into consideration then we are
in good position.
1.
FAITH
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. When you need God to intervene any situation
or anything happening in your life, what is your part is to believe only that
God is able of anything. The verse above is telling us “…the evidence of things
not seen”, it means things which by our mighty and force can not happen but God
can make them happen and people will wonder how great is our God. Just have
faith, things will happen.
2.
STRONG REASONS
Isaiah 41:21 “Present your case”,
says the LORD. “Bring forth you strong reasons”, says the King of Jacob. This
verse teaches us that, we have to go to God with strong reasons. Some of us do
not pray but only crying and blaming God why they are in troubles; diseased,
difficult life, lacking of school fees e. t. c. In this verse God tells us that
we need to tell Him what we need Him to do in our life and not blaming Him with
difficulties in our lives.
3.
TIME
Isaiah 43:26 “Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case,
that you may be acquitted” and 1 Samuel 1:20 “So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and
bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him
from the LORD”. The first verse tells us to put God into remembrance not
because He is forgotten NO it is because He needs to see how patient we are and
how much we believe in Him no matter how long time is gone. In the second verse
God tells us that there is appropriate time of answering our prayers, the time
when everyone is giving up and convincing you to find an alternative. Just be
patient, God will answer.
4.
INIQUITIES & SINS
Isaiah 59:2 “But you iniquities
have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you,
so that He will not hear”. The verse is telling us that, iniquities can
separate us from God and sins hide His face and both iniquities and sins makes
Him close His ears and He will never hear us no matter how strongly with tears
we will pray. So we need to be pure hearted before our God, then He will hear
us praying and answering our prayers.
5.
BY THE NAME OF JESUS
John 15:16 “…that whatever you ask
the Father in My name He may give you”. This is amazing, just whatever we ask
our God(Father), He may give us. But this comes with only one condition, the
condition is; asking the Father in His name(Jesus’ name). So praying to our God
through Jesus’ name anything is possible.
6.
TITHES
Malachi 3:10 “Bring all the tithes
in the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this”,
says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and
pour out for you such blessings that there will not be room enough to receive
it”. Most of us needs blessings in our lives; we needs good houses, cars,
holding large businesses and many more. We keep praying by crying every day
before God, forgetting that we are out of the blessings secret. The blessings
secret is TITHE! Bring Him your full tithe in due time and you will receive the
blessings He promised even without asking or praying for.
7.
GIVING THANKS
Ephesians 5:20 “Giving thanks
always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”.
Whatever we ask God no matter He have answered or not, we have to give Him
thanks. By giving thanks even in our ordinary life, things are moving this is
much more in our Father. Give Him thanks and praise Him for what He did in your
life, He will keep doing because you just give Him thanks.
8.
VOWS
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 “When you make
a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what
you have vowed. Better not to vow than to vow and not pay”. This is the problem
of many of us, we vow and not pay our vows. God calls people who are not paying
for their vows; fools. I don’t wonder if God will not answer our prayers,
because He never listens fools’ voices no matter how good we will be praying.
Pay all of your vows in time, next time praying God will careful listen to your
prayers and He will answer you.
I believe, God has taught you something new in your life.
You will never stay the same, just keep these things into practice and you will
see God’s hand and blessings in your life. AMEN.
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