Jesus said 'anything you pray for in my name I'll do it'.? This is a lie?

Question

I've prayed for things before, nothing happens or the opposite happens.

Answer 1

It will not happen if you use his name as a good luck charm to get what you want. Some Jews saw how demons were being driven out by the apostles using the name of Jesus so they tried it and the demon beat them up so badly they fled naked and bleeding. What are your motives for asking the Lord? If they are selfish or decitful your prayer will be rejected.

Answer 2

In Jesus time, even the disciples that gathered around Him for favors, couldn't understand why their prayers weren't answered. Jesus told them it was because they have 'asked amiss'!
God will not answer the prayers of an unsaved individual! Only the prayer of 'repentance' will He hear from Heaven and answer! God doesn't obligates Himself to answering the prayers of the unsaved, only His saved children!
Many times even His children ask for things that are obviously silly to ask for or will even hurt them in the long run. Like some child praying that her mean little brother will get sick or die! Or some adult praying for the winning lottery numbers, when God is against gambling in the first place, and can not show you favoritism over all the others that might be praying for such, in the second place!
Praying for the wisdom of Jesus, and having His love and compassion towards our fellow man is a much better ideal thing to pray for, . . don't you think? Praying for some fellow worker at your job, to lose their job just because you don't get along with them, . . it not. God Bless

Answer 3

When you pray in His name it must also include His character and nature. The Scripture also says, you pray and do not receive because you ask amiss to consume it upon your lusts. That is not in the Name (which includes the character and nature) of Christ. You line up with the will of God, with nothing of sin in you, and line up with the purposes of God and you will find that this Scripture "works" perfectly. Do not try to make God be a great big Santa in the sky - it doesn't work - HE IS GOD. Sometimes He says yes, sometimes no and sometimes wait. But if you want the fullness of what prayer is really all about, like the scripture you refer to - then it takes a deeper commitment and understanding than just saying the word "Jesus" after your prayers.

Answer 4

He will do whatever you pray for in His name. If you pray in the name of Christ then you know that when you pray you are asking God for His will in your life. He knows what is best for you, even more so than you know for yourself. He knows that if you pray for a million dollars, but in winning that millions dollars your whole family will end up hating you because of jealousy and you will end up being a selfish self-centered person that that wouldn't be in your best interest. So even if He hasn't answered your prayer the way you would have wanted it doesn't mean he hasn't answered

Answer 5

God doesn't lie! John 14:14 says if you ask ANYTHING in my name I will do it. It does not say instantly. Sometimes He wants to see if YOU mean business. You are already callin' Him a liar. Maybe it's not the right time yet. If you could just rattle off wishes and they would just fall out of the sky, you'd probably be more miserable than you are now. Certainly more un-thankful! And I don't mean it in a bad way.
Look at Job! He didn't know for sure that God wasn't gonna
let him die. By all indications, He WAS! Yet he still kept faith and said "Though He slay me , yet will I trust Him.
Look at the Hebrew Children who had to go into an oven so hot it burnt up the guards that put them there. They said to the King, "Look, we know that our God who we worship is ABLE to save us, and He will deliver us out of your hand. BUT IF NOT, were still not going to bow down to that stupid idol." They were willing to die trusting.
What's the big problem that you have so much difficulty having a little faith and trusting God about this, that now you gotta bad-mouth Him and call Him a liar.
Actually the scripture says "Let God be found true and every man a liar!" oops You been at it 40 years yet like the Hebrew Children in the wilderness. You even been at it 40 days like Jesus in the wilderness, You been at it 38 years like the woman with the issue of blood? They could all have given up, and thrown in the towell, but then they wouldn't have seen the healing , the deliverance, the answer. Are you reading His promises out of His Word, are you communing with Him?
That's a good verse, and He wil give you what you want and need that's good for you, but He'll also let you have something that's NOT good for you if you bug Him and pester Him about it enough, so you'll learn to make wiser choices next time.
I personally like the verse in 1st John: "if we ask anything according to his will He Heareth us, and if we know that he hear us , we know that we have the partitions that we desire of Him." So then we can furthur understand that if we are asking God for something, we need to believe that it's His will for our lives. James says "The effectual, fervant prayer of a righteous man availeth much!" Are you holding on tight, and not letting go?
Elijah prayed seven times for rain, and each time sent his servant to look again while he prayed more. But it came! "A trash mover and a gully washer!"
You think you are waiting on God, But I think God is waiting on YOU! It's not about how you pray or how long you pray but it sure is about what you do while you're waiting. Maybe you gotta "Knock"! Maybe you gotta "seek" maybe you gotta do some "WENTING" (as they went they were healed)!
You give up: you got zilch, but if you keep believing, even if you get NOTHING that you asked for (though I kinda doubt that ) you get the pleasure, the glory, the adventure of living the life of faith. And God is with such faith! -- Sionarra

Sorry- furthur disclaimer :Truth Traveler says "God doesent hear the prayer of an unsaved sinner." Bit too exclusive for me, too exclusive for God too! Read the first chapter o Romans, T.T. God loves and is near the heart of every man. "Many shall come from the east and from the west and shall sit down with the son of man in His kingdom, but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out!" No wonder, if they get so self righteous and uppity to think they're the only ones. There IS a verse in the Bible which says "God heareth not sinners" but it wasn't the Lord talking, But a conversation between he Pharasees and a blind man who was healed, I believe. It is "scripture" but it is not "scriptural"!

Answer 6

you need to understand one thing, God is not a genie in the sky ready to grant all your wishes. Even when you pray for something in His name, if it is not the will of God, then it won't happen; if it is, it will. The trick is getting your will to align with His will, then yes, anything you pray for in His name He will do because only then will you be in "one accord." Sometimes (many times) "no" is the answer, even if its not what you want to hear.

Answer 7

Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

I bet your motives are selfish. See 1 John 5:14-15

Answer 8

If I prayed for every person I didn't like to disappear and it didn't happen would you say I was lied to there. God knows what we really NEED, so we should put our trust totally in Him. Although yes you can ask for things and for help you should end with, "Not my will, but yours be done." Say that truthfully and believe.

Answer 9

Not if you are praying amiss. And you do not sound like a real believer anyway

Answer 10

first u have to be filled with the Spirit and walking in the light ... u cant pray for somthing to consume it on ur lust or pray without faith and expect anything ...