Why Unanswered Prayers

Have you ever asked your self what you are seeking, looking for? May be we have done this for our careers, our family, or our dreams.

Have you ever asked yourself, what do I seek for my own spirituality? Your spiritual life?

Most of us have heard this passage over the years, ask and will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened?

How many of you, ask God for something and it was given you?

How many of you have prayed for something over and over and the prayer was not answered?

Have you ever thought why our prayers aren't answered the way we want or answered in the way God wants?

Jesus is teaching us this morning about the effectiveness of our prayers

The Catechism (255) says that prayer is the raising of our hearts and mind to God, to adore him, to praise him, to thank him and to ask him for our needs

Jesus emphasizes to us about the need and importance of petitionary prayer, which should be us acknowledging and recognizing God as Jesus’ Creator and Father. As a child of God we must humble ourselves before him and in that humbleness ask God for what we need.

Jesus does not put any restriction: Every one who ask receives, because God is our Farther.

St Jerome said this about effectiveness of prayer,” It is written, to everyone who ask it will be given; so, if it is not given to you, it is not given because you did not ask, so ask and you will receive.

However, St Augustine says sometimes our prayers are infallible, meaning we do not obtain what we want because we are “aut mali” or an evil people. Why? because we do or are one of five things:

1- Our Dispositions are not good

2- We pray without faith

3- We pray without humbling ourselves before God

4- We ask for things that are bad, things that are not good for us

5- Finally, our prayer is ineffective because our prayer is not true prayer.

I finish with this, the way we keep our prayer from not being heard is 3 simple things:

1- Humble ourselves before God, before we even think about asking God for something

2- Acknowledging that God is our Father and place nothing above him

3- In your prayer, before asking for your needs, Praise Him for being God our Father, Thank him for all that he has done for us, put others prayer needs above your own and finally place your needs before him.