There are times we will be full of questions in our mind that why didn't God answer our prayer? Although there are many reasons that God won't answer our prayer, there some reasons that we can find it from the bible. We will focus on the top 10 reasons why our prayers remain unanswered.
1. Refusing to hear the truth
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
(Prov. 28:9)
Have you even experience someone who knows that what they are asking for is not the will of God? But they make such a prayer anyway. Why ? They want something so bad that they didn't even care whether it is the will of God or not. This kind of prayer never can stand under the truth of God's word.
2. Tempting or provoking God
But the LORD was angry with me because of you would not listen to me.And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.(Dt. 3:26)
Once God have already said a final "no " about an issue,
we better not to ask anymore.Look at Moses and you will know that.
3. Lack of charity or love to others
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.(Prov. 21:13)
How can we expect God to hear us if we didn't even open our ear to hear the cry from the needy?
4. Lack of humility
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.(2 Chron. 7:14)
There are times we just want to think that God needs to answer everything we ask even when we have failed Him. We didn't know that we really have to humble before the Lord and ask for His forgiveness and have mercy on us.
5. A hardened heart
They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts. "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called,and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts.
(Zech. 7:12, 13)
We need to obey God's word at all times and bow down before Him. Someone had a hardened heart and you will never forget what happened to him and his kingdom. His name ------ Pharaoh of Egypt.
6. Forsaking God
and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me,Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.(2 Chron.15:2)
We should always seek God's face and not forsaken His word if we want to see the result in our prayer life.
7. Praying a miss (wrong motives)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.(James 4:3)
We need to examine our own motive before we seek The Lord in prayer . For the Lord knows our heart and our motive and nothing can be hidden before Him. We can even deceive ourselves but not to God.We can fill in all the beautiful words of the Universe in our prayer, but a wrong motive can never move God to answer our prayer.
8. Regarding iniquity
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.(Ps. 66:18)
It is important to clear all the rubbish things in our mind before we start to ask God for anything. If our heart is right with God and stay in purity, no obstacles can block our prayer to heaven.
9. Unbelief
He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." (Mt. 17:20)
And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household." And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching. (Mk. 6:4-6)
We need to ask God to build up our faith all the times and God will always train us with His way. Sometimes, it is not an easy training, but it helps us to grow in our prayer life. When faith is build up, sometimes it is just as tiny as a mustard seed, we can move the mountain with this tiny but pure faith.
10. Sin
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.(John 9:31)
Sin is the major obstacle that we really have to deal with if we want our prayer experience an answer from heaven.
Conclusion:
God wants to answer our prayer all the time and He wants to answer our prayer all the times if we can pray according to His will. What is His will? It is all in the Bible. If we can pray according to the words of God by faith. And if we can examined our hearts and motive and get right with God. We can be so confidence that our prayer will be answered according to God's timing. Amen.
