Why Don't God Answer My Prayer's?
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Why Don’t God Answer My Prayer’s?
Why Don’t God Answer My Prayer’s?
Lady and the Atheist.
I get asked the most from people.
It always starts with “WHY?”
WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER MY PRAYER’S?
This morning we are going to take a look at prayer, and I will try my best to answer the questions about prayer.
There are Five Points that i’m going to look at this morning.
What is Prayer?
Why do I need to Pray?
How do I Pray?
How often do I need to Pray?
Why Don’t God Answer My Prayer’s?
I. What is Prayer?
I. What is Prayer?
A solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God.
Is a single line of communication from yourself to God.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is our way to talk to God.
To Thank Him,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
To ask for help,
To ask Him, to help others,
II. Why Do We Need To Pray?
II. Why Do We Need To Pray?
Because it’s commanded of us
23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
17 Pray without ceasing.
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
2. Because of Christ’s example.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
3. Because of the examples of the early church.
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Acts
5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
4. Because prayer is God’s chosen method for the following
For defeating the devil
For saving sinners
For restoring backsliders
For strengthening the saints
For sending forth laborers
For curing the sick
For glorifying God’s Name
For imparting wisdom
For bestowing peace
For help keeping from sinning
For revealing God’s will.
Before you pray, you should know there are some qualifications to prayer.
Each of your prayers should be.
Humble
Psalms
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
2. Bold
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Bold
3. Faithful
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
4. Sincere.
18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth.
5. Simple
Psalms 145:18
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
6. Definite
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Ps
III. How Do I Pray?
III. How Do I Pray?
Jesus was asked this question by His disciples.
1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
The simple thing about prayers is, all you have to do is open your mouth and just start taking to God!
There are no special way you have to pray, all you need to do is speak, or silently in your mind.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
IV. How Often Do I Need To Pray?
IV. How Often Do I Need To Pray?
The Bible tells us we need to always need to be praying.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-
The problem with today’s society is that Christian have ceased praying daily.
They only pray when they need or want something.
They stopped praying to simply to thank God for what they have and for what He has provided.
Our world has became a generation of ungrateful, selfish, self absorbed, self centered, greedy people.
Hindrances to Prayer Life
Sin
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear me:
2. Insincerity
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew
3. Carnal Motives
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James
4. Unbelief
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
5. Domestic Problems
7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
6. Pride
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 10:
7. Robbing God
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, Even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be meat in mine house, And prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, If I will not open you the windows of heaven, And pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Malachi
8. Refusing to help the needy
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:15
9. Refusing to submit to Bible teaching
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the Lord:
9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer shall be abomination.
Proverbs 1:24-
Proverbs
10. Refusing to forgive or to be forgiven
Matthew 5:
23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
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.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
V. WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER MY PRAYER’S
V. WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER MY PRAYER’S
That’s pretty simple I Just 10 reason.
Moses was a great man of God.
Leader
Priest
Prophet
Law Giver
Moses was a man prepared of God to do the task laid before him.
Moses prayed to be able to enter the Promised Land.
God denied Moses’s request.
The Reason was DISOBEDIENCE.
1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.
7 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
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b. Moses disobeyed a direct command from God.
Moses disobeyed a direct command from God.
God had commanded Moses to speak to the rock.
Moses struck the rock with his staff
Then Moses took credit for bringing forth the water.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?