Why do you think sometimess God says NO to prayers?

Question

When you ask a prayer and nothing seems to happen, and you realize God somtimes answers your prayers with a "No".

Answer 1

Because sometimes the things we want in life don't correlate to God's greater plan. Sometimes we don't realize that the motivations behind what we ask for aren't right. Sometimes we're asking for something that will interfere in our relationship with God.

I know that these answers don't always make sense, especially when we're praying for things like for family members to be healed, or even when all we need is something to come through so we can make our rent payment or we'll be living on the street. We aren't able to see the ENTIRE picture like God is.

Answer 2

Never has a time been when God says 'NO' to one's prayer. The Supreme Power will give what is asked for. Its just that sometimes we may have to wait for our turn. Here is where karma or one's own deeds of the past and present play a significant role.

If things were as simple as being asked and instantly given, would one even think at length about God? Our focus shifts to God in completeness only when things dont materialize or happen after much delay. This wait period is the time when we think more deeply of Him.

Perhaps its His way of creating a better awareness of life beyond and the Supreme Being.

Answer 3

If He did not spare His own Son but deliver Him for us all, how will He also not with Him, freely give us all things?

All the promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus.

I know sometimes when some people pray and they don't seemed to see their answers that they are looking for. Or they don't have the patience to wait. Or simply, they have no faith or do not trust God.

I also know some people whom they are in a position when men can no longer help them and only God can and they prayed, believed God and waited for His deliverance through patience and perseverance, their manifestation happened. A lot of times, these people found that God answers above and beyond what we can ask or think. These people grew in their faith and are able to trust God for bigger things and man-impossible things.

God loves you. Shalom.

Answer 4

If you are already a believer, God tells us that He will not hear our prayer if we are giving place to iniquity in our hearts. For example, immoral thoughts are the equivalent of adultery, and anger is the equivalent of murder (Matthew 5).

Ps 66:18 "If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear."

Sometimes God says "no" or "wait" as an answer to our prayers. These answers should not be confused with not receiving an answer at all. A mature believer thanks God for the times God says "no," recognizing that many of the things we ask for in prayer would not be God's will for us, and sometimes even be harmful for us if we received them.

We may not be praying in accordance with the will of God. First John 5:14-15 tells us: “This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.” In addition, James 4:3 clearly tells us that our motives can be a problem in receiving answers to prayer: “You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.”

Answer 5

No , He answers every prayers.
but sometime it seems it not happening in that condition
some bad thing which r going 2 u, may be canceled by the ur prayer

Answer 6

God only has three answers Yes, No and Wait God maybe just wants you to wait it's probably not time for you to get what you want and maybe you won't get it God knows what you need and when you should get it and unfortunately sometimes what we want isn't always whats best for us so just wait and Trust in the Lord

Answer 7

As a wise father I do not want to give everything that my children ask. Many times they asked something that I know will be harmful to them, and so I answered them with a "No!"
Jesus says, will a father give a stone to a child who asked for a piece of bread? Or will he give a scorpion to one who is asking for fish? Definitely not!

On the other hand, if we ask for a knife to play with, knowing the danger to us as children, He will give us something else which is better, not dangerous and give us more pleasure to play with, rather than the knife.

And so is our Father in Heaven. God knows what is best for us.

And God's way is the best way, though we may not see.
And instead of demanding from Him what we think is good to us, we must always say: "Thy will be done!"

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose.

Answer 8

Because in Lamentations 3:44 it says that God doesn't hear ALL PRAYERS. Meaning that selfish prayers, prayers that make no sense, prayers to CHANGE OTHERS and other things that just can't be done (bucking someone else's free will), are not noticed.

Lamentations 3:44 "for you have placed a cloud mass in front of you so that our prayers may not pass through."

Answer 9

God always wants what is best for us--that is his will. If we pray for things which could be harmful or in some way lead us away from him or if the time is not right for something, he will say "no".
Also, if we pray for selfish things or for selfish reasons, he may even turn a deaf ear to the prayers.

Answer 10

The Bible says that when we don't get what we ask for it is because we ask with the wrong motives. Or sometimes God could be protecting us from something that we are unaware of.