Why does it take a long time?

Question

why does it take a long time for God to answer my prayers?

Answer 1

Please be patient with God, he may answer your question in a completely different way than you are expecting and works on his time frame, not yours. If you have true faith and believe that God is working for your greatest good, then you will know and beleive God will always provide the best answer for you. That may not be the answer you want - but it is the answer that is best for you.

It sometimes takes months or years for one to understand the workings of the divine creator in our lives and why things happen the way that they do - believe that only good things come to you and they will.

Answer 2

In my humble opinion, prayer is a form to communicate with God in a very unique way. I don't feel that it is the same sort of conversation you have between other people in your life. Instead, I believe that God essentially "speaks" through the heart. That is, I pray to God, and just thinking about His presence reminds me that He is there for me. With this source of comfort ready in my mind, the thought of God helps to clear my mind, and makes the answer to my question readily obvious within myself. God will likely never speak directly to you -- from personal experience, prayer serves to show me that I have had the answer within me all along. It's not always the answer I've wanted, either.

Answer 3

This is difficult, isn't it?

I think the Lord answers our prayers when the time is right for the answer. That can mean many different things. Sometimes I think we're not ready for the answer he may want to give us. Sometimes the answer is a matter of timing. Sometimes I think we need to learn patience, and to show our devotion to the Lord even though we are asked to wait.

My favorite scripture is in the 40th Psalm: "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry."

Be patient. Although you may not hear his answer right away, he is listening all the time.

Answer 4

We all seem to forget that he created the world when he was ready, so we have to remember that he will answer our prayers when he thinks we are ready, and not any sooner, so if we are praying for an answer and he doesn't answer right away it probably will happen but later on down in time, just have faith he answers all.

Answer 5

God is not like Santa Claus. He answers us when we pray according to His will. Our life is a process or some say a path . . .along this path we have lessons to learn . . . our life is not always about getting what we want from God.
Example of appropriate prayers:
Help me Heavenly Father to see all the wonderful things You've made for me and help me to be grateful today.

I pray that I may become as a little child, friendly and loving and not critical and fearful.

Please Father give me a brave and thankful heart.
I ask all these things in Jesus name, Amen

Think about what you are asking for . . .Make sure it is His will and not just your will.
Cathy

Answer 6

There is no god.

How do I know, you say? Have I looked everywhere in the universe in order to find one?

We've never seen anyone turn a tennis ball inside out without cutting it, but then we haven't been every place in the universe at every moment in the history of the universe, so how do we know that it's never happened?

Logic, that's how. We don't *have* to look everywhere, because we *know* that it's impossible.

Similarly for a god - We don't *have* to look for gods everywhere in the universe in order to prove they don't exist. We just need logic.

All reasoned arguments rely on axioms, i.e. things which we take to be true, but which are not amenable to proof. The most obvious axiom is the validity of reason itself - It is trivially obvious that we can't use a reasoned argument to prove that reason is valid, because we have to presume that reason is valid in order to make any kind of reasoned argument.

I have another axiom, which I'm sure no sane person would dispute: That the order and complexity that we see around us in the natural universe, and particularly in the intricate structure and functions of living organisms, could not possibly just exist fully formed, with no cause, no origin, no precursor of any sort. I can't *prove* that this is the case, but it seems inconceivable to me that anyone would dispute it.

So, the logical consequence of accepting this axiom is that, for the very same reason, it's not possible that the order and complexity of the universe is sourced in an intelligent deity who designed and made the universe and *himself* exists fully formed with no cause, no origin, no precursor of any sort. I don't think any reasonable person would dispute the axiom presented here, and acceptance of the axiom leads to an indisputable proof of the non-existence of an intelligent creator.

Anyone who (against all reason) asserted that the order and complexity we see in the universe *could* indeed exist fully formed with no cause and no origin, in order thereby to save the concept of an uncaused intelligent designer, would find that they had invalidated said designer by making him redundant - i.e. if the order and complexity of the universe could just exist fully formed and uncaused then it would not need (in fact, could not possibly have) a designer.

Either way, the concept of a creator is invalidated.

Answer 7

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying...it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Answer 8

Is this your plan we are following or God's? He answers when it is time to answer.

Not actually believing in God, I would really say it is actually a matter of how long does it take you to get off your duff and do something about the things you pray about.

Answer 9

Because there's no god to answer your prayers.

Answer 10

hmm maybe he chooses to only answer certain prayers. so maybe it isn't that it is taking him a long time, it's just the things you are praying for aren't meant to happen then way your hoping..